Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.157

c7.157

The heterogenous character of the sources of our M. renders it impossible to utilise the few geographical data occurring in it in order to definitely determine its land of origin³. It is, therefore, hardly advisable to insist upon the interesting definitions of the lands, Brahmāvarta, Brahmarṣideśa, Madhyadeśa and Āryāvarta (M. 2, 19, ff.), although they seem to belong to the ancient part of the work, specially because Baudhāyana 1, 2, 9 ff. whose school certainly belongs to Southern India, also locates the lands of the Aryans to the region of the holy rivers in Northern India⁴.