History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.1428

v7.c99.1428

Mīmāṁsakas (vide under Colebrooke) are strongly opposed to holding that any part of the Veda is useless or meaningless or non-eternal 1255, Colebrooke said that disquisitions on Mīmāṁsā bear a certain resemblance to juridical questions, that the logic of the Mīmāṁsā is the logic of the law 1220, made a sweeping generalization that the whole Veda is meant for sacrifices but, though they went too far, they had some grounds for their theory, 991; the word 'Mīmāṁsaka' occurs in Mahābhāṣya 1156,