History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s63.17

v1.c6.s63.17

About twenty smṛtikāras⁷⁴³ are mentioned in the Vyavahāramātṛkā. Kātyāyana, Bṛhaspati and Nārada are the three smṛtikāras most frequently quoted, nearly two-thirds of the quotations in the entire work being derived from them. Among the *nibandhakāras* the following are named:—Jitendriya, Dīkṣita, (p. 302), Bāla (p. 346, the same as Bālaka), Bhojadeva (pp. 284, 305), Mañjarīkāra (i. e. Govindarāja), Yogloka, Viśvarūpa, Śrīkara (pp. 292, 334 or Śrīkaramiśra p. 342). About Viśvarūpa he says⁷⁴⁴ 'I have put forward this conclusion of the ancient writers, I have refuted the objections of Viśvarūpa and others and dealt with them at length.' Yogloka and Śrīkara are generally quoted for being refuted and the former is frequently jeered at as 'tārkikaṁ-manya' or 'nava-tārkikaṁ-manya'. In this work Jīmūtavāhana displays great familiarity with the ancient dialectics. In some cases what the printed text exhibits⁷⁴⁵ as prose really constitutes verses. Sir Asutosh Mukerji is not accurate when he says in the preface that 'Jīmūtavāhana refers to a number of jurists not mentioned by any other author, e. g. Jitendriya, Yogloka, Bālaka, Viśvarūpa, Śrīkara and Mañjarīkāra.' It has been shown above that both Viśvarūpa and Śrīkara have been mentioned by the Mit. which is certainly earlier than Jīmūtavāhana and by a host of other writers who were either earlier than or contemporaries of Jīmūtavāhana. The Vyavahāramātṛkā is quoted in the Vyavahārtattva⁷⁴⁶ (pp. 199, 214, vol. II) and the Dāyatattva of Raghunandana.