History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s93.11

v1.c6.s93.11

The Vīramitrodaya is a work of high authority in the Benares School of Hindu Law. The Privy Council has laid down that ' the Vīramitrodaya is properly receivable as an exposition of what may have been left doubtful by the Mitākṣarā and declaratory of the law of the Benares school. '¹¹⁰⁵ Similarly it has been said by the same high tribunal that the Vīramitrodaya may be referred to even in Bengal where the Dāyabhāga is silent.¹¹⁰⁶ But where the text of the Mitākṣarā on any point is quite clear, the gloss of the Vīramitrodaya on the text of any sage which is in conflict with the rule laid down in the former cannot be referred to for the purpose of casting a doubt on the clear rule of the Mitākṣarā.¹¹⁰⁷ The Vīramitrodaya is inferior to the Vyavahāramayūkha in Western India¹¹⁰⁸ and its doctrines are not followed in those provinces when in conflict with those of the other two works. Their Lordships of the Privy Council say in *Vedachala v. Subramania*¹¹⁰⁹ ' although the Smṛticandrikā in the Southern Presidency is regarded as the most authoritative commentary on Vijñāneśvara's work, the Vīramitrodaya holds, as in Western India, a high position. It supplements many gaps and omissions in the earlier commentaries and illustrates and elucidates with logical preciseness the meaning of doubtful prescriptions. '