The History of Indian Literature c8.24

c8.24

But the literature of the Sútras can by no means be said to rest entirely upon the Bráhmaṇas, for these, as a rule, give too exclusive a prominence to the ritual of the sacrifice. Indeed, it is only one particular division of the Sútras—viz., the Kalpa-Sútras, aphorisms exclusively devoted to the consideration of this ritual¹⁰—which bears the special name of Śrauta-Sútras, *i.e.*, “Sútras founded on the Śruti.” The sources of the other Sútras must be sought elsewhere.