History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.430

v7.c99.430

Change (or Changes): (*vide* Kalıvarjya, dharma, mīmāṁsā, smṛtis), in religious rites and usages could be made and were made if common people came to condemn or hate them, even if a few orthodox people may be opposed to change, 1267-71, 1469; change is the one absolute in the long history of our religious or social ideas 1271; examples of fundamental changes in conceptions, beliefs and practices made from ancient times to medieval times by various devices, 1265-7, 1629; people should be free to introduce or recognize such changes in practices as are required or have already taken place in changed circumstances and this course sanctioned even by Manu and Yāj. and by eminent medieval works like the Mitākṣarā 1272; should not be merely for the sake of change or for the whims of some leader 1272.