An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c9.t2.2

c9.t2.2

For the whole group of orthodox twice-born men the final exposition of the Karma Mīmāṃsā, the Nyāya, and the Vaiśeṣika in sūtras—all three being systems which orthodox householders favoured—and the codification of the ancient dharma in the lawbooks during those centuries must have been of signal importance; while the writing of the Pariśiṣṭas now attached to the Baudhāyana Gṛihya-sūtras seems to have arisen directly from the emergence of the Smārtas.