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History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s40: 53. Ṣaṭ-triṁśan-mata

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s40

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53. Ṣaṭ-triṁśan-mata

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This appears to have been a work like the Caturviṁśatimata described above. Quotations from it are cited in the Kalpataru, the Mitākṣarā, the Smṛticandrikā, Aparārka, Haradatta and a host of writers and works. Mitramiśra⁴⁷⁵ says that though the Ṣaṭ-triṁśanmata has been accepted as an authority by the above-mentioned writers, yet certain other writers did not hold the work authoritative. The fact that Viśvarūpa and Medhātithi do not mention this work, taken along with the above statement of Mitramiśra, may be relied upon for holding that this compilation must have been among the latest products of the age of smṛtis and was probably compiled some time between 700-900 A. D. Almost all the quotations from this compilatiou are concerned with the topics of purification of substances (śuddhi), śrāddha and prāyaścittas for sins and pollutions of various sorts. No verse of this compilation dealing with vyavahāra could he discovered. One verse quoted from it prescribes a bath on touching Bauddhas, Pāśupatas, Jainas, atheists and followers of Kapila.⁴⁷⁶ Another verse quoted by Aparārka cites the view of Bṛhaspati.⁴⁷⁷ In another verse the view of Vaivasvata is referred to.⁴⁷⁸ Aparārka quotes a prose passage from this compilation prescribing the prāyaścittas for touching the corpse of a cāṇḍāla etc. As no ms. was available, it is difficult to say what 36 sages are relied upon as authorities.

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⁴⁷⁵ षट्त्रिंशन्मतादिकं तु कैश्चिदेव परिगृहीतत्वाद्विगीतत्वादप्रमाणमित्युक्तम् । कल्पतरुणा विज्ञानेश्वरापरार्कशूलपाणिप्रभृतिभिस्तु प्रमाणत्वेन परिगृहीतम् । परिभाषाप्रकाश p. 17.

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⁴⁷⁶ बौद्धान् पाशुपताञ्जैनान् लोकायतिककापिलान् । विकर्मस्थान् द्विजान् स्पृष्ट्वा सचेलो जलमाविशेत् ॥ स्मृतिच० l. p. 118, अपरार्क p. 923 omits जैनान् and reads लोकायतिकनास्तिकान्.

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⁴⁷⁷ तिलहोमायुतं चैव पराकद्वयमेव च । गायत्र्या लक्षमेकं च समान्याह बृहस्पतिः ॥ अपरार्क p. 1249.

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⁴⁷⁸ समुच्छिष्टस्तु यो भुङ्क्ते भुङ्क्ते वा मुक्तभोजनः । एवं वैवस्वतः प्राह मुक्त्वा सान्तपनं चरेत् ॥ अपरार्क p. 1174.

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