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Inheritance
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CONTENTS. ix
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«- The Four Orders . . . . : . . 258
The Offering to the Vital Airs . . . . . 262
Eating. . . : . . . : . . 264
SrAddhas . . . . . . . . . 266
The Procreation of Sons - . . . . . 271
Ascetic. . . . . . . 273
Ways of Living for Householder . . . . .. 284
Hermits . . . : . . . . . . 291
Penances for a Student . . . . . . . 294
Aghamarshaaa . . . . . . . . . 296
Prasritiyavaka *. . . . . . . . . 297
Kfishmanzdas. . . . . . . . 300
Kandrayana. . . . . . . . . 303
Anasnatparayana . . . . : . . 307
Penances . . . . . . . . . . 310
Secret Penances. . . . . . . . 320
Rites securing Success . . . . . . . 322
Parisishfa on Adoption. . . . . . . 334
InpEx To Parts I anp II (Vols. If and XIV) . - 337
Additions and Corrections . . . . . . . 355
Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East . . . 357
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THE VAsish¢da DharmasAstra is, like that of Gautama, the last remnant of the Sfitras of a Vedic school, which, as far as our knowledge goes at present, has perished, together with the greater part of its writings. We owe the preservation of its Dharma-sftra probably to the special law schools of India, which, attracted as it would seem by its title and the legend connecting it with Vasish¢/a Maitravaruzi, one of the most famous Azshis of the Rig-veda and a redoubtable champion of Brahmanism, made it one of their standard authorities. The early existence of a legend according to which the V4sishtna Dharma-sfitra was considered either to be a work composed by the Xéshi Vasish¢ha, or at least to contain the sum of his teaching on the duty of man, is indicated by several passages of the work itself. For the Dharma-sitra names Vasishz/a, or appeals to his authority on no less than three occasions. First, we find a rule on lawful interest, which is emphatically ascribed to Vasish¢/a}. ‘Learn the interest for a money lender, the Sftra says, ‘declared by the word of Vasishtha; five m4shas (may be taken) for twenty (karshdpavas every month).’ Again, at the end ofa long string of rules? which contain the observances to be kept by sinners who undergo Krzkkhra penances, Vasishtha’s name is brought forward as the authority for them, and the last words are, ‘Thus speaks the divine Vasish¢ha.’ Finally, the concluding Sdtra of the whole work? gives xii VASISHTHA.
1 Vasishtha Dharmasastra IT, 51.
2 Vasishtha Dharmasastra XXIV, 5.
8 VAsishtha Dharmas4stra XXX,11. Similar invocations of teachers at the end of Sitras occur frequently, e.g. Asvalayana Srauta-sitra XII, 15,14; Rigvidhana V, 3, 4; YAska, Nirukta, Roth, p. 216,
Part II — Vâsishtha and Baudhâyana, the other two of the four schools named on Part I's title page. Bühler's account of how these texts were recovered, and the argument that dates the Sûtras by what they presuppose, is given once in Part I and governs both volumes.
same translation project as The Sacred Laws of the Âryas, Part I: Âpastamba and Gautama — SBE Vol. 2 (trans. Georg Bühler, 1879)