An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c7.s2.7
An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c7.s2.7
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c7.s2.7
It is as yet impossible to give any definite chronology of the *sūtras*; but all the surviving works of the *Śrauta*, *Gṛihya*, and *Dharma* classes (called as a group the *Kalpa-sūtras*) probably belong to the fifth, fourth, or third centuries.¹ Nor is it yet possible to set them out in the order of their origin.²