History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.22

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³³¹ प्रकीर्णके पुनर्ज्ञेयो व्यवहारो नृपाश्रयः । राज्ञामाज्ञाप्रतीघातस्तत्कर्मकरणं तथा ॥ पुरप्रदानं संभेदः प्रकृतीनां तथैव च । पाखण्डिनैगमश्रेणीगणधर्मविपर्ययः । पितापुत्रविवादश्च प्रायश्चित्तव्यतिक्रमः । प्रतिग्रहविलोपश्च कोपश्वाश्रमिणामपि । वर्णसङ्करदोषश्च तद्वृत्तिनियमस्तथा । न दृष्टं यच्च पूर्वेषु सर्वं तत्स्यात्प्रकीर्णकम् ॥ नारद (प्रकीर्णक 1-4) quoted by the मिता. on या. II. 295. The स्मृतिच. (II. p. 331) reads पुरप्रमाणं and explains पौरचरितलेख्यप्रमाणम्. तत्र बृहस्पतिः । एष वादिकृतः प्रोक्तो व्यवहारः समासतः । नृपाश्रयं प्रवक्ष्यामि व्यवहारं प्रकीर्णकम् ॥ स्मृतिच० II. p. 331. (*Continued from the last page*) In an interesting paper contributed to the Sir Denison Ross volume of papers pp. 234-240 Dr. V. Raghavan describes a work called 'Vaiśyavaṁśasudhākara' composed by Kolācala Mallinātha, the renowned commentator of the five classical Sanskrit Kāvyas. This work is the report or decision given by a commission presided over by Mallinātha appointed to settle a dispute (which in these days might be called a caste question not cognisable by civil courts) that arose in the times of Devarāya II. of Vidyānagara (1422-1466 A. D.). Vaiśyas were given a license to trade in the 24 cities and 108 shrines of the realm; certain subcastes like the Komaṭis claimed to be vaiśyas and this privilege also. Mallinātha decides after a searching examination of authorities that the words vaiśya, vaṇik, nāgara, ūruja, tṛtīyajātīya are synonyms, that Komaṭis, who were styled vijātis by their rivals, were vaiśyas and entitled to all the privileges of vaiśyas. This decision would come under either **पाषण्ड ... विपर्ययः** or **तद्गृहीतिनियमः**.