History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s34.3

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The Mit. (on Yāj. III. 25 and 260) quotes verses of Prajāpati on aśauca and prāyaścitta. Aparārka cites verses of Prajāpati on purification of various substances, śrāddha, witnesses, ordeals and aśauca. None of these is traced to the printed text of Prajāpati. Aparārka (p. 952) gives a long prose text of Prajāpati on the four orders of parivrājakas, viz. kuṭīcaka, bahūdaka, haṁsa, paramahaṁsa. Aparārka (p. 542) cites a verse of Laugākṣi which refers to the view of Prajāpati that the son of a putrikā was to offer piṇḍas to his mother by the gotra of his maternal grand-father.⁴⁴² Aparārka, Smṛticandrikā, Parāśara-Mādhavīya and other works quote several verses of Prajāpati on vyavahāra. Witnesses are of two kinds, kṛta and akṛta. In this he seems to have followed Nārada (ṛṇādāna, verse 149). Prajāpati lays down the characteristics of valid reply (uttara) of the defendant and defines⁴⁴⁴ the four varieties of uttara. The Parāśara-Mādhavīya cites several verses of Prajāpati on ordeals. Prajāpati recognised the right of the sonless widow to succeed to her husband's wealth⁴⁴⁵ and enjoined on her the duty of offering śrāddha every month and year to her husband's manes and to honour his relatives.⁴⁴⁶