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# History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.86

History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.86

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### [v7.c93.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c93.86)

2\. From Pāṇini we know that there were two \*bhikṣu-sūtras\* composed by Pārāśarya and Karmanda before his time. Patañjali mentions a mīmāṁsā work composed by Kāśakṛtsna. There is, therefore, no doubt that sūtra works on ‘bhikṣus’ and mīmāṁsā had come to be composed several centuries before the Christian era.

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