History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.79

v7.c93.79

Then some sūtras of VS in which the words 'tad-uktam'¹⁹¹⁰ occur have to be considered. There are eight sūtras that contain those words. Śaṅkarācārya holds that in VS I. 3. 21, II. 1. 31, III. 3. 18 (where 'tad uktam' occur) the reference is to the preceding sūtras of the VS itself. On V S. III. 3. 26, III. 3. 33, III. 3. 50 and III 4 42 Śaṅkarācārya holds that these respectively refer to PMS X 8. 15, III. 3. 8, XI. 4. 10 and I. 3. 8-9 and that VS III. 3. 43 refers to a sūtra of the Saṅkarṣakāṇḍa. The other ācāryas differ from Śaṅkarācārya in several places and among themselves Vallabhācārya, who had come to regard the Bhāgavata as of equal authority with the Veda and as even superseding the latter, holds that the words 'tad-uktam' in VS III. 3. 33, III. 3 50 and III. 4. 42. refer to passages of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa. The VS III. 3. 44 appears to echo the words and principles of PMS III. 3. 14.¹⁹¹¹ The words 'tad-uktam' should ordinarily mean the same thing throughout i. e. they should everywhere be taken as referring to the PMS or to VS. But no ācārya is prepared to accept entirely one of these two alternatives. It may further be noted that the extant P. M. S. very rarely employs the words 'tad-uktam' as in V. 3. 9 where it refers to PMS V. I. 19.¹⁹¹² The P. M. S., though it mentions Bādarāyaṇa five times, nowhere appears to be influenced by the V. S On the other hand, not only are some of the sūtras of V. S. containing the words 'Tad-uktam' deemed to be references to the P. M. Sūtras, but the V. S frequently employs peculiar Pūrvamīmāṁsā words such as arthavāda, prakaraṇa, liṅga, vidhi, śeṣa and purely P. M. matters such as in III 3 26 (kuśāchandastutyupagānavat), III. 3. 33 (aupasadavat), III. 4. 20 (dhāraṇavat), IV. 4. 12 (Dvādaśāhavat). Therefore, the extant VS very much presupposes the P. M. S., while the latter cannot be said to have been influenced by VS to any noticeable extent.