Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.68

c7.68

The particular Vedic school too out of which this work has arisen, can be determined. On the ground of a passage mentioning Maitrāyaṇī quoted in a commentary, Bühler first gave out the suggestion that the H. is Maitrāyaṇīya². Caland has adduced two other quotations from H. to corroborate this suggestion (loc. cit.) in which likewise Maitrāyaṇī is mentioned and he has pointed out cases of remarkable agreements between other quotations and the Maitrāyaṇīyapariśiṣṭa and the Mānavaśrāddhakalpa. The Ms. contains not only the quotation of Bühler all the quotations forwarded by Caland, but it shows other connections with the Maitrāyaṇīya school, for it even introduces the bhagavān maitrāyaṇiḥ and quotes Mantras from the Maitrāyaṇīya Saṃhitā, such as the well-known Mantra śatadāyo vīro in Maitrāyaṇīya Saṃhitā 1, 7, 5.