The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c10.s13.32

c10.s13.32

Though all these are sources of law, yet each one of them does not deal with all matters; and sometimes they contradict one another. Therefore, the commentator says that though each of them is an authority, yet the lacunae of one should be supplied from the other, where one is incomplete; and where they differ there is option. Manu (II, 14) has also taught this option in regard to the *Smṛitis*. But when two *Śrutis* are conflicting, both are held to be law, says he; for both are pronounced by the wise to be valid."