Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.197

c7.197

Even without taking into account the occurrence of the epithets referred to above, in the case of by far the greater number of these metrical Smṛtis, so far as they have been printed, there are weighty reasons to consider them to be modern compilations of secondary importance. First of all, these works, for the most part, do not contain the numerous texts about all features of Dharma, particularly about law proper, which are ascribed to their alleged authors in the commentaries and systematic works on law of the mediaeval age.