Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.182

c7.182

The impression that our M. is the basic work upon which Nār. has made improvements is further strengthened by the fact that he fully agrees with M. in the arrangement of the subject matter because even the “miscellany,” prakīrṇaka, not found in M. among the titles of law, and the appendix on theft, have their parallel passages in the section 9, 229-325 of M. which seems to be a supplement to the 18 titles of law The initial verse of the original work of Manu cited in the introduction agrees almost literally with M. 1, 4 which, in fact, is the real beginning of the work and its table of contents likewise approximately agrees with that of our M. ; Nār. frequently refers to M. and in a Ms. Nār. is even directly called *mānave dharmaśāstre nāradaproktā saṃhitā*, just as M. is called the *bhṛguproktā saṃhitā*.