Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c19.s1.18

c19.s1.18

This ‘Word’—which, according to *Prabhākara*, is the same as *Scriptural Text*—is of two kinds:—(1) Those actually found in the Veda and (2) those, the presence of which in the Veda is inferred. To the latter class belong all those texts that are inferred as supplying the basic authority for the Injunctions of actions contained in the *Smṛtis*,—whose sole claim to authority rests upon the fact that they contain no Injunctions save those vouched for by Vedic texts.