History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.645

v4.c63.t2.645

It is further provided that works of heretical sects were to be left out of consideration. Manu calls them smṛtis, but they are outside the pale of Vedic orthodoxy. Manu (XII. 95) declared,¹⁶⁹⁴ 'the smṛtis that are outside the (pale of) Veda and all false or fallacious doctrines are of no avail after death, because they are all based on ignorance'. In the Vedāntasūtra (II. 1. 1) also the word smṛti is applied to the works on the Sāṅkhya philosophy. The Tantravārtika (p. 195) says that the Bauddhas and other heretical sects do not admit that their doctrines are based on the Veda, like a bad son hating his parents; the prescriptions contained in their works are opposed to all the 14 *vidyās* except in the case of a few sentences laying down restraint of senses, charity and the like; they were promulgated by persons like the Buddha who had given up the path of the Veda and did acts contrary to the Veda and they were propounded to persons that were beyond the pale of the three Vedas and that mostly were śūdras and persons outside the system of the four varṇas and āśramas. Medhātithi on Manu II. 6 adopts this and remarks¹⁶⁹⁵ that the Śākyas, Bhojakas and Kṣapaṇakas do not admit the Veda as authoritative, they openly declare the Veda to be unauthoritative and they teach doctrines directly opposed to the Veda. The Caturviṁśatimata¹⁶⁹⁶ states that the words of Arhat (Jina), of Cārvāka and of Bauddhas, should be abandoned as they lead to delusion.