Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.265

c7.265

Still many more names occur in the juridical quotations, to which we should also add the numerous texts which are quoted without any more accurate designation than "Smṛti". In most cases these quotations are not numerous enough so that the individuality of the authors concerned may stand out in bold relief, yet in general there is no reason to assign them to an older period than that of Bṛh. and Kāty. Thus the Smṛtisaṃgraha, whose very name betrays it to be a modern compilation, declares the unequal partition of property favourable to the older sons, the levirate and the animal sacrifice to be inadmissible in the present age and gives views about the nature and the origin of ownership which remind us even of the commentaries. Prajāpati gives great prominence to widows' right of inheritance. Halāyudha, Dhāreśvara (Bhoja), Jīmūtavāhana—famous commentators of the mediaeval age are at the same time quoted as authors of Ślokas exactly of the same style as of the metrical Smṛtis.