History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s15.7
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s15.7
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Bühler found a ms. of the Vaikhānasa-sūtra, consisting of a gṛhya in seven praśnas, three praśnas of dharma ( the same as described above ) and a fourth on pravaras. In the gṛhya a reference to Budhavāra occurs ( R. and S. p. 9 ). Dr. Caland in his paper on Vaikhānasa-sūtra holds that the Manusmṛti borrows from Vaikhānasa-gṛhya and that the author of the latter was saturated with the idiom of Dravidian languages ( vide Prof. Keith’s review in *Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies*, 1927, p. 623). Dr. Caland’s view about Manu is entirely wrong as will appear from the section on Manu. Vide Th. Bloch in ‘über das Gṛhya-und Dharmasūtra der Vaikhānasa’ (Lipzig, 1896).