History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.802.5

v4.c63.t2.802.5

Hemādri in Dānakhaṇḍa quotes a passage from the Garuḍapurāṇa in which seven matters are mentioned as forbidden in Kali, viz. Aśvamedha, Gosava, human sacrifice, Rājasūya, remarriage even of a girl whose first marriage was not consummated, the carrying of a kamaṇḍalu and procreation of a son on a widow by her husband's brother. The Smṛtyarthasāra (p. 2) mentions twenty-six Kalivarjyas without expressly citing the name of any work. In the Sm. C., the Caturvargacintāmaṇi of Hemādri (III. part 2 p. 666), the Par. M. I. part 1 pp. 131-137, the Madanapārijāta (pp. 15-16), Madanaratna (samayoddyota), the Udvāha-tattva (p. 112), the Samaya-mayūkha, the Samayaprakāśa of Mitramiśra (pp. 261-263), the Nirṇayasindhu (III, pūrvārdha at end), Bhaṭṭoji on Caturviṁśati-mata, the Smṛtimuktāphala (varṇāśrama p. 13), the Smṛtikaustubha, the Dharma-sindhu (pp. 357-358) and some other works quote long passages from a purāṇa (which in some of them is specified as the Ādityapurāṇa) that mentions about 50 Kalivarjyas¹⁸⁰³. There is a work called Kalivarjyavinirṇaya or Kalivarjyanirṇaya composed by Dāmodara elder brother of Nīlakaṇṭha (first half of 17th century A. D.), who in his Samayamayūkha refers to it. It quotes the Ādityapurāṇa, Brahmapurāṇa and other texts that are quoted here from Hemādri and other older digests¹⁸⁰⁴.