Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.106

c7.106

On the other hand, the Dharmasūtra of Paithīnasi, likewise consisting mostly of prose texts and important for the law proper, seems to belong to the Atharvaveda, as Bloomfield has already conjectured⁴ and Caland⁵ proved the probability of, on the ground of the similarity of the Śrāddhakalpa of this author, collected by him from quotations, with the Atharva ritus. The prose quotation about adoption from a Kātiyalaugākṣisūtra might also have been derived from a Gṛhyasūtra. Similarly a rule in prose about the damage done to merchandises is associated with the name of Kātyāyana who, as is well-known, was a Sūtrakāra of the White Yajurveda. It is quoted by Medhātithi on M. 8, 215, from a Kātyāyanīyaṃ Sūtram ¹. Kātyāyan Brahmans are still found e.g. in Puna, although it is not clear whether they are connected with the Vedic school of the same name or not. See §9 for the metrical Smṛti of Kātyāyana. A Kātyāyanagṛhya is quoted by Hemādri 3, 1, 1324, which is different from the Pāraskara and contains a cross reference to the Śrautasūtra. Isolated prose rules of Devala, Pracetas, Bhṛgu, Vyāsa and others are also quoted, who are known to us otherwise only as authors of metrical Smṛtis.