History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.178.1

v7.c90.178.1

In the following notes on individual Purāṇas and Upapurāṇas the author adds a few notes based on his own study of the Purāṇas and (printed) digests (*nibandhas*) of an early age He desires to emphasize that the earliest works that can be called digests and are available in print cannot be placed earlier than about 1100 A. D. Though there is difference of views among scholars about the exact dates of composition, the Mitākarā, the Kṛtyakalpataru (which is a regular Digest of various kinds of materials on Dharmaśāstra) and Aparārka's work (though in form a commentary on Yājñavalkya-smṛti is still in the nature of a Digest) are three printed works more or less contemporary and composed between about 1100 to 1140 A. D. The Kṛtyakalpataru on Vyavahāra mentions by name Prakāśa, Halāyudha, Kāmadhenu and Pārijāta. Besides, Kṛtyakalpataru (Niyata p. 280) cites the explanation of Parārika (in Āp. Dh. S. I. 17. 26) by the Smṛtimañjarī (of Govindarāja) and also on śrāddha (pp. 46 and 259). It has been shown in H. of Dh. vol. I that Prakāśa (pp. 306-308), Pārijāta (pp. 308-309), Smṛtimañjarī (pp. 312-314) were works of the digest *genre*. The Kāmadhenu of Gopāla also appears to have been a digest (H of Dh. vol. I. pp. 293 ff.). The author Gopāla was a friend of Lakṣmīdhara (vide Introd. to Dānakāṇḍa p.