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History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s16.t10: 25. Budha

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s16.t10

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25. Budha

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This sūtrakāra is not mentioned by Yāj. nor by Parāśara. He is very rarely cited. Aparārka on Yāj. I. 4-5, Kalpataru (quoted in Vīra-mitrodaya, Paribhāṣā p. 16), Hemādri,²³² Jīmūta-vāhana's Kālaviveka are probably the earliest writers to mention him. In the Deccan College Collection there are two mss. of a Budha-dharma-śāstra in prose (No. 507 of 1881-82 and No. 145 of 1895-1902, 2 folios). The work is very brief²³³ and speaks of *upanayana*, marriage, eight forms of marriage, the saṁskāras from garbhādhāna to Upanayana, the five daily great *yajñas*, śrāddha, pākayajñas, haviryajñas, somayāga, the means of subsistence for a Brāhmaṇa, the duties of Vaiśyas and Śūdras, the orders of forest hermits and sannyāsins, removal of thorns by the king, administration of justice, king's duties.

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²³² चतुर्वर्ग० (दानखण्ड p. 527) says 'आदिशब्दाच्च बुधदेवलसोमप्रजापतिवृद्धशातातप-पैठीनसिच्छागलेयच्यवनमरीचिवत्सपारस्करपुलस्त्यपुलहक्रतुकृष्णशृङ्गश्रेयाणां ग्रहणम्'.

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²³³ The Budha sūtra opens as follows :—अथातो बुधधर्मशास्त्रं व्याख्यास्यामः। श्रेयोभ्युदयसाधनो धर्मः। गर्भाष्टमे ब्राह्मणो वसन्त आत्मानमुपनयेत् । एकादशे क्षत्रियो ग्रीष्मे । द्वादशे वैश्यो वर्षासु । मेखलाजिनदण्डकमण्डलूपवीतानि धारयेत् । &c. हेमाद्रि (परिशेष, काल, p. 309) quotes this as Budha's from स्मृतिमहार्णव.

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The work does not produce the impression of being early. It is in the nature of a summary of larger works on dharma. All quotations in Hemādri cited from Budha are not found in the mss.

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