Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.132

c7.132

Even the sphere of the duties of the king (7, 1-226 ; 9, 294-325) was considerably extended and supplemented compared with the Dharmasūtras, e. g. Vi. Adhy. 3. It contains, *inter alia*, the daily routine of the king (M. 7, 145 f., 151 ff., 216, 221 ff.) seen also in the Mah. 15, 5, 10 ff. and in Daṇḍin's Daśakumāracarita 8 (p. 156 ed. Godabole), and particularly the exaggerated glorification and deification of royalt (M. 7, 1-15 ; 9, 294-311 etc., cf. Mah. 1, 82, 18, etc.) which is quite consistent in a work intended for the Kṣatriyas and their advisors while in the Vedic literature and the Dharmaśūtras royalty is as a rule extolled only in connection with Brahmanism. The philosophical portions of the 1. and the 12. Adhy. are based, as Garbe has proved, on a later Purāṇic form of the Sāṃkhya philosophy. Also in the other chapters there is much which was probably added to the original work only at the time of its versification—such as the philosophico-medical excursus 2, 89-100, the classification of the pitaraḥ 3, 193-201, discussion about the means of subsistance of the Brahman 4, 1-24, the introductory remarks before the laws of diet 5, 1-4, the remarkably detailed account of the mixed castes 10, 1-74, and the uselessly repeated laws about the duties of the castes 10, 101-131 etc.²