Yasastilaka and Indian Culture

SR No.: 001609
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 566
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Story, Literature, & Culture
File Size: 16 MB

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YAŠASTILAKA AND INDIAN CULTURE
शुद्धाशुद्धशुश्रूषा शूद्रप्रेषणकारिणः । शूद्रदत्ता च या वृत्तिः पर्याप्तं नरकाय ते ॥
तथा मांसं श्वचाण्डालकन्यादादिनिपातितम् । ब्राह्मणेन प्रहीतव्यं हव्यकव्याय कर्मणे ॥ P. 118 With regard to the first verse, the Smrtis of Angiras and Āpastamba (Chap. 8) contain a statement very similar in tone.
In : zara HUTET I TERHAITA: #fxwazanfar crada di As regards the second verse, the Prajāpatismrti recommends the acquisition of meat for religious purposes from hunters, who, as a rule, belong to the lower strata of society: AT #TRA autor on: (verse 143). Further, the Brhat-Parāśarasamhitā 6. 328" holds that the flesh of animals killed by dogs and tigers is pure, and may be used in religious functions. कन्यादैः सारमेयाधैर्हतं मृगादिमाहरेत् । एतच्छाकवादिच्छन्ति पवित्रं द्विजसत्तमाः॥
Somadeva refers in Book III to several ancient writers on Smrti. The envoy of Yaśodhara is described as surpassing in intellect Pulaba, Puloma, Pālakāpya and Kātyāyana.Of these writers Palaha and Pulastya are among the ten teachers of Dharma mentioned in a verse of VrddhaYajñavalkya quoted in Viśvarūpa's commentary on Yaiñavalkuasmrti 1. 5. and mentioned also in a similar verse in Vrddha-Haritasmrti 8. 3. Puloma was a writer on politics, and his opinion is cited in Kāmandaka's Nitisāra 8. 21. Kātyāyaną was a great jurist. The reading Pālakāpya in the
It is not clear why a writer on elephants should be mentioned along with celebrated writers on Dharma. Besides, the four Manuscripts used by me read Palakāvya, and even Srutasagara who reads Pālakāpya says that there may be a reference to two different names, so that we have to suppose the mention of two writers, Pāla and Kāvya. The latter is no other than Sukra, the great authority on rājanīti, but we know nothing about Pāla as a writer on Dharma or state-craft. It may, however, be mentioned that a writer named Pālaki is quoted in the anonymous commentary on Nitiväkyāmsta 22. 2, but the quotation is about the eight weapons of a war elephant, and this Pālaki may turn out to be the same as Pālakāpya. On the other hand, there was an old writer on Dharma named Gopāla, who is mentioned in the Brhat-parāsarasamhită of Suvrata (1. 14) and the Rājanitiratnākara of Caņdeśvara.
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ELEPHANT-LORE In Book II Somadeva refers to the treatises on elephant-lore composed by Ibhacarin, Yājšavalkya, Vāddhali (v. r. Vāhali), Nara, Nārada,
1 See Parāśaradharmasanhita, Vol. III, Part 1 (Bombay Sanskrit Series'). 2 'निजप्रशातिशयावहेलितपुलहपुलोमपुलस्तिपालकाप्यकात्यायनमतिजातम्' 3 Kane: The History of Dharmaśāstra, Vol. I, p. 213ff. 4 पालकाप्यस्य काव्यस्य वा इयं भिन्नम् ।