History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.321

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There is one more word that must be explained, viz. *nityānuvāda*.²⁰³² This word occurs in Āpastambadharmasūtra II. 6. 14. 13 (vide n. 1877 above). It occurs frequently in Jaimini (vide II. 4. 26, IV. I. 5, VI. 7. 30, VII. 4. 5, VIII. 1. 6, IX. 4. 36, X. 2. 38) and Śabara uses it oftener still. He explains that where the Vedic text apparently prohibits something when there is no possibility of what is prohibited as happening, there is nityānuvāda (as in 'the fire altar should not be piled on bare earth nor in the sky nor in heaven'). The Tuptīkā states the same thing in a different form when it says that where a prohibition amounts to an arthavāda, that is nityānuvāda.