Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c8.29

c8.29

But it is difficult to accept these conclusions. It is true that the Parāśarasmṛti contains no section dealing with Vyavahāra and Mādhava supplied the omission by adding a section on Vyavahāra to his commentary, using for this supplement the works of ancient authors containing sections on law. But he does not seem to have drawn any inference from or made any use of the current practices of his day. The authors whom he largely quotes and makes use of are also ancient, though a few of them might have been posterior to Parāśara. It is a fact that the writing of this treatise coincided in point of time with the foundation of the Vijayanagar empire in which he had a large share. But Mādhava did not write this legal treatise on substantive and adjective law for the practical guidance of the Vijayanagar sovereigns. He was not the Kauṭalya of the Vijayanagar court.