History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s64.1

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On the smṛti of Yājñavalkya Aparāditya wrote a voluminous commentary styled Aparārka-Yājñavalkīya-dharmaśāstra-nibandha (published in two volumes by the Ānandāśrama Press, Poona, 1903 and 1904). In a verse⁷⁶⁰ at the end and in the colophons the author is called Aparāditya, a Śilāhāra king, born in the family of Jīmūtavāhana of the Vidyādhara race. In the introductory⁷⁶¹ fifth verse also the author is styled ‘an ornament of the family of Jīmūta’ and is highly eulogised for his devotion to Śiva and his brilliant intellect.