Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.150

c7.150

That the alleged work of M. received so general a recognition even so early, may be explained on consideration of the fame of the mythical M. of whom even in the three Saṃhitās of the Black Yajurveda it has been said that all that M. has said is medicine 3. The fact that this Mantra and the passage to the effect that M. divided his property among his sons, which is often quoted in connection with the law of inheritance, belong to the Black Yajurveda, as we as the occurrence of a few Mantras specially peculiar to this Veda¹ in M. and its relations with Vi. may be explained on the hypothesis that the sources of law made use of by him belonged, though not to the Mānava school, yet exclusively or principally to the sphere of the Black Yajurveda. But this too is uncertain.