Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.232

c7.232

The Vṛddha-Gautama too falls in this class and it has nothing to do with the Vṛddha Gautama of the quotations but in spite of that it may similarly be recognised to be a Viṣṇuite work even from its very title “Vaiṣṇavadharmaśāstra.” V. S. Islampurkar has detected it to be a part of the Mah. and though it cannot be found in the printed editions of the Mah., yet it occurs in an ancient Ms. of the Āśvamedhika Parvan discovered by him and under this title it is often quoted in the Mādh.³ The metrical Śaṅkhalikhita (Madras ed.) and Pulastya (Bombay ed.) belong to this class and the same is the case with the numerous still unpublished works of this species as with the published ones, so far as I can judge them by a critical examination or by the available extracts and descriptions. The Viṣṇuite tendency is particularly in evidence.