Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.66

c7.66

As thus the existence of H. in the mediaeval age and earlier is proved as satisfactorily as in the case of the works hitherto dealt with, the H. also agrees with them in form and substance as far as possible. The se, which on the whole is predominant, alternates in Anuṣṭubhs and Triṣṭubhs; the verses are often introduced with the typical athāpyudāharanti of the Dharmasūtras; quotations from the Veda are pretty frequent. The contents deal with the sources of law, Brahmacārins, Upakurvāṇaka as well as Naiṣṭhika, Snātakas and Gṛhasthas, Vānaprasthas and Yatis, restrictions about food, Pratigraha, Ṛtvij, Śrāddha, including Paṅktidūṣakas and Paṅktipāvanas, duties of the Snātaka, Dharma in general, the five Pākayajñas, study of the Veda and Brahmacarya, Yama and Niyama, impurity and the removal thereof, penances for various infringements, procedure with the witnesses, judicial affairs and the temporal law, laws about women, principal sins, fooding of the Brahmans, particular penances, expiatory prayers etc. In one of the quotations from H. which however, I cannot trace in the Ms., there appears to be a reference to the Śrāddhakalpa in the Śrautasūtra of H. (Caland)¹.