The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t6.7
The Mauryan Polity c5.s2.t6.7
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² The law-book of Yājñavalkya has been recently the subject of critical study by two German scholars. J. J. Meyer argues that individual authors were at the bottom of the law-books of ancient India in his learned work *Uber das Wesen der altindischen Rechtsschriften* (Leipzig, 1927). This assumption is questioned by Hans Losch in his new book *Die Yājñavalkya Smṛti* (Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1927). This provoked a reply from Meyer, in his *Gesetzbuch und Purāṇa* (Breslau, 1929). Here Meyer reaffirms the position which he has originally taken, in regard to the authorship of Yājñavalkyasmṛti.