Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.242

c7.242

Kāty. is closely connected with Bṛh. as a juridical author. As a teacher of the White Yajurveda he is considered to be the author of several works including the Srautasūtra and the Śrāddhakalpa to this Veda, and quotations are found also from a Kātyāyanagṛhya ², which is different from the Kāṭiyagṛhya of Pār. See § 8 for his Karmapradīpa. It is possible that the latter is a fragment of the original Smṛti of Kāty., for it contains many of the texts quoted in the Dharmanibandhas; yet the juridical texts of Kāty., which are not found in it are so numerous that they might have formed a work by themselves. Very probably these texts are connected with the Dharmasūtra of Kāty., discussed in § 4.