Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.173

c7.173

² Meyer (Rechtsschriften, pp. 120-194) says that the whole text of Y. is nothing but a metrical version of what his predecessors in the field had said on Indian laws and customs and that most of all he has copied Kauṭilya. As Y. has broken up and never quoted in full the verses of previous works in his attempt to condense the text as much as possible, Meyer argues that any work which has any verse in common with Y. must be later than Y. These theories of Meyer are however directly opposed to the conclusions reached by Losch. See foot-note 1, p. 44. Tr.