History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.1837.5

v7.c99.1837.5

Vārtikas of Kātyāyana and the Mahābhāṣya establish that Mīmāṁsā terms had been elaborated long before them 1156-1158, very rarely refers to other ācāryas by the word 'eke' and V S also does so rarely, its references in the words 'eke', 'ekeṣām' and 'anye' being made to Vedic recensions or Upaniṣads 1173, word 'Nyāyavid' is applied to writers on P. M. 1155n; words 'codanā', 'upadeśa' and 'vidhi' are synonyms acc to Śabara and 'codanā' means a sentence that urges men to do some act 1183-85; works and writers from Jaimini onwards rely on smṛtis and Dharmaśāstra 1178, writers on P. M are called by Bālakrīḍā of Viśvarūpa simply 'nyāyavidaḥ' or 'nyāyavido yājñikāḥ' 1155n