History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.546

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Śabara gives an alternative explanation of this sūtra (Jai. I. 3. 4) and makes a separate topic (*adhikaraṇa*) of it. The reasons¹⁶²⁵ for giving an alternative explanation of a *sūtra* or *adhikaraṇa* are two, viz. dissatisfaction with the explanation already given or the wide scope of the subject under discussion. In I. 3. 3 passages from smṛtis were cited which were apparently in conflict with śruti. If they were really in conflict, that one reason alone is more than sufficient to render the smṛtis invalid. Therefore to say further that those smṛti passages originate in worldly motives like greed does not add any very substantial reason for the abandonment of smṛtis as authoritative. Therefore Śabara makes another adhikaraṇa of sūtra 4 of Jai. I. 3.