Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.70

c7.70

The comparatively numerous quotations from H. Āp. and Baudh.¹ also indicate that he was a Sūtrakāra of the Black Yajurveda; however, none of these passages is found in the Ms. The Ms. is derived from Nasik, this city is at the same time the find-spot of two Mss. of the Maitrāyaṇīya Saṃhitā. The Maitrāyaṇīyas otherwise lived farther in the north, probably in the neighbourhood of the Kathas who are closely related to them and by them are reckoned among the oldest Vedic schools². The word *kaphella* used in a quotation, which is a Kashmirian word according to the commentary (Hemādri 3, 1, 559), seems to indicate a Kashmirian home for H.