[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896) › c7.62 # Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.62 Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.62 - **Language:** English ### [c7.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c7.62) The newly discovered and still unpublished Dharmaśāstra of Hārita consists of 30 Adhy. like Vas. but is, however, more extensive than any of the above mentioned works excepting Vi. Before the appearance of the Ms. of this work which until now is the only one available, discovered by V. S. Islampurkar in Nasik,² a Dharmasutra of Hārita was known only from quotations and from them I in 1889 compiled the Vyavahārādhyāya of H. and W. Caland in 1893 gave a synopsis of H.’s treatment of the Śrāddha ritual in his “Ahnencult”. These passages, so far as they appear to be ancient in language and substance may be traced almost fully in the Ms.,¹ but on the other hand the metrical quotations among them about legal procedure and law of debt, whose modern character I had pointed out, are not found in it. Apparently these quotations are derived from a later work, as several metrical works of modern times ascribed to H. are still in existence (§8). Other ancient quotations mostly in prose, on the other hand, about Śrāddha, impurity, penances, rules about food and bathing and other parts of the sacred law, are found in the Ms. although our work seems to have undergone much damage since the time of Hemādri (13. century) who gives an enormous mass of such quotations. In the fourteenth century the Dharmasūtra of H. is frequently quoted in the famous commentary of Mādhava on the Parāśarasmṛti, and the editor of this work, V. S. Islampurkar, who has been already mentioned, has traced most of these quotations in this Ms. Of other ancient Smṛtis the Sūtra-work of Uśanas (§4) in Adhy. 4 contains a reference to the view of H. about the issues of a union with a Śūdrā which remarkably agrees with a passage in H. 21 (Caland).² It must be admitted at all events that U. refers to the special case where a son is born of such a union. - [Previous: c7.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c7.61) - [Next: c7.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c7.63) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c7) ## Linked texts (5) - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit - [Parāśarasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.parasara) — Parāśara, Sanskrit - [Auśanasasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.usanas) — Uśanas (Śukra), Sanskrit - [Hāritadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.harita) — Hārīta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c7.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c7.62) · Pramāṇa