Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.21

c7.21

The Dharmasūtra of Hiraṇyakeśin is closely connected with that of Āpastamba, and its unimportant differences from it, consisting chiefly of variations in readings, have been collected by Bühler in an appendix to his second edition of the Āp. Of the collection of Sūtras of the Hiraṇyakeśin school, consisting of 36 chapters, the Dharmasūtra represents the 26. and the 27. chapters.³ The tradition says that Āpastamba preceded Hiraṇyakeśin,⁴ who dissented from the older Āpastamba school and founded a new school settled between the Sahya mountains (in the Konkan and further south) and the Southern Sea, which, however, even now appears to admit its dependence on the Āpastamba-school.⁵ The fact that a Hairaṇyakeśabrāhman is mentioned in a Pallava inscription of the fifth or the sixth century A. D., affords a lower limit for the date of the separation of this school from the Āpastambīyas which, however, took place probably much earlier.¹ For the authenticity of by far the greater part of the Āpastambīyadharmasūtra, we find a much wished for confirmation in the exactly corresponding text of Hiraṇyakeśin's Dharmasūtra.