Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.88

c7.88

which exactly agrees in a remarkable manner with M. 3, 16. Three of these quotations, though not exactly in the same form, appear in our Vas. 1, 24 ff., Hār. 21 (cf. above, §3) and Gaut. 4 26. Accordingly our U. would be later than M., Vas., Hār., and Gaut., but older than Hemādri (13. century) and at all events it is but incomplete as we have it, for many of the old quotations are not found in it and some of the most important features of Dharma are not dealt with in it at all. The Mss. are truly very bad and contain large lacunae particularly in Adhy. 1 and 2. The ancient Ṛṣi Uśanas is considered the author of another Smṛti¹ as well, which contains some prose passages. This work, however, which has been published, many times already, is clearly not the U. of the quotations as none of them are found in it. It consists of 618 Ślokas and 2 Sūtras in prose in the 9. Adhy. which deal with the daily duties—Śrāddha, impurity, penance and often agrees verbatim with M.