History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.595

v7.c93.595

The tenth chapter is the longest chapter in the PMS, having eight pādas and 577 sūtras (i. e. more than one-fifth of the total number of sūtras) just as the third (with 363 sutras) and the 6th (with 349 sutras) have eight pādas each. This chapter is concerned with *bādha* (annulment or exclusion) and *abhyuccaya* or *samuccaya* which is the exact opposite or antithesis of *bādha*. The general rule is that the details of the prakṛtiyāga (model sacrifice) should be taken over in the vikṛti (modification). But in some cases the vikṛti-yāga²¹⁸⁶ has a different name, some of the saṃskāras (purificatory and embellishing acts) and some of the substances (dravya) employed in the prakṛti cannot be extended to the vikṛtis, because there are express texts negativing their employment or because they serve no purpose or have become useless or senseless. Śabara states that *bādha* occurs when an idea or knowledge determined for certain as this type or that has to be understood as wrong owing to some (special) reason while *abhyuccaya* (addition or combination) occurs when even after we have the knowledge that certain matters are to be extended to the vikṛti there is the further idea that a few others also are to be additional in the vikṛti.