History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.916

v4.c63.t2.916

35. 'Not accumulating any wealth (or grains) for the morrow' (I. 28). Manu IV. 7 and Yāj. I. 128 provide that brāhmaṇas are of four kinds, viz. those who accumulate grain of the capacity of a *kusūla*, those who accumulate grain of the capacity of a *kumbhī*, those that accumulate grain enough to satisfy their needs for three days and those who do not collect grain even for the next day. The smṛtis prescribe that each later one is superior in merit to each preceding one. The commentators differ as to the meaning conveyed by kusūladhānya (some holding that it means one who has accumulated grain for three years, while others say it means one who has grain for 12 days) and kumbhīdhānya (a person accumulating grain for a year, or grain for six days). Vide H. of Dh. vol. II. p. 110, note 234 and p. 641 note 1502. The Mit. on Yāj. I. 128 says that the advice not to accumulate corn even for three days or one day is not addressed to all brāhmaṇas, but to those only who are called yāyāvara¹⁸⁵⁵. This explanation of the Mit. indicates that the Kalivarjya text on this point was either not known to the Mit. or was not much thought of by it. The Kalivarjya text provides that the ideal of extreme poverty and absence of acquisitiveness for brāhmaṇas was not to be insisted upon in the Kali age.