A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.83

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∗ Ibid LXVIII 37-53. Verse 40 in the above extract, beginning with the words 'na hi jātyavamantavyo manuṣya iti bhūmipah', occurs in a slightly changed form in Manu (VII 8), while verse 41 in the former resembles verse 10 of the latter. This shows on the basis of the acknowledged principle of interpretation in such cases that both the above verses must have belonged to an earlier collection of metrical maxims. We have thus a corroborative testimony pointing to the antiquity of the extract cited above.