Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.216

c7.216

Similarly the little work now figuring under the name of Vyāsa can at the best be fragments of the Smṛti of Vyāsa which is likewise particularly important for jurisprudence, although several of the quotations about other features of the Dharma are found in it³. Satī is again recommended in Vyāsa 2, 53⁴. A similar incongruity exists between the c. 700 verses on law proper alone which are ascribed to Bṛhaspati and the 66 verses on Dāna of which his printed Smṛti consists. Yet some of these verses are ascribed to Bṛh. by Hemādri⁵ and some other verses agree with the usual promissory and imprecatory formulas in the landgrant inscriptions ¹. The metrical Atri which in 238 verses deals with Ācāra and Prāyaścitta, does not contain any of the none too numerous texts about Dāna, Prāyaścitta, Śrāddha, adoption and other features of Dharma, which are dscribed to A. ²