The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c8.77

c8.77

Baudhâyana. Many of the social and political ideas of Gautama are to be found in other Sûtra composers but the latter also present something peculiar to each. Baudhâyana's school belonged probably to the south, where much later, Sâyaṇa, the great Vedic commentator, was a member of it. A reference to sea-borne commerce points in the same direction.⁵ The fourth section of the Baudhâyana Dharma Sûtra is probably a late addition, while the date of the third is doubtful. The first two sections alone can be utilised for the Sûtra period. He preserves a record of the old theory of wergild which is likely to have been