History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s21.28

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The details of information about Vināyaka in Yāj. (I. 272-276) appear to be versified from the prose³¹⁷ of the M. Gṛ. S. The details of worship also and the *mantra* (Yāj. I. 291) are taken from the same work (*vide* M. Gṛ. S. II. 14. 30 for the *mantra*). At one time the section on Vināyakaśānti was thought to be a sure indication of the late date of Yāj. But since the discovery of the Mānavagṛhya that position had to be given up. In the Baudhāyana-dharmasūtra (II. 5. 21) we have Vināyaka and his several appellations (in the *tarpaṇa*). Aparārka on Yāj. I. 275 quotes a long passage from the Baijavāpa gṛhya which bears a very close correspondence in phraseology to the passage from the M. Gṛ. S. quoted above and which gives the names of the four Vināyakas as Mita, Saṁmita, Śālakaṭaṅkaṭa and Kūṣmāṇḍa-rājaputra.