Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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INTRODUCTION.
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which belong to the latest productions of the Smriti epoch of Hindu Law, but its legal rules and judicial theories have a decidedly more advanced character than either Vishnu's or Yågñavalkya's. The Smriti of Vishnu cannot belong to an earlier period than the third century A. D. , and the Yågħavalkya Smriti is not likely to be anterior to it in date.
Again, the judicial trial which is described in the welland with the drama known drama Mrikkhaka tikà corresponds
Mrikkhakarika. in all essential features to the rules laid down in Närada's chapter on 'The Plaint 3' If, then, the Náradiya Dharmasastra and the Mrikkhakatika are contemporaneous productions, we have a further reason for assigning the composition of the former work to the fifth or sixth century A. D. It may also be noted that Narada (XII, 74) regards sexual intercourse with a female ascetic, pravra gita, as a kind of incest. In the earlier Indian dramas likewise, such as Kalidasa's Malavikâgnimitra and Sudraka's Mrikkhakatika, the position of nuns and monks is highly dignified.
Last, not least, the European term Dinâra, i. e. denarius The term Diofre or onváplov, which is so important for
" the purposes of Indian chronology, occurs repeatedly in the Nárada-smriti. In the first passage (Introd. II, 34, p. 32), Dinaras are mentioned among other objects made of gold, and it would seem that a gold coin used as an ornament is meant, such as e. g. the necklaces made of gold mohurs, which are being worn in India at the present day. A string of Dinâras' (dinara. malaya) used as a necklace occurs in a well-known Jain work, the Kalpa-sútra of Bhadrabahu“. It is, however, possible that the Dînåras or other golden things' may be gold coins simply, and that Narada means to refer to forged or otherwise counterfeit coins. The second passage (Appendix v. 60, p. 232) is specially valuable, because it contains an exact
· Sacred Books of the East, vol. vii, p. xxxii. · Tagore Law Lectures, p. 49. • See, particularly, p. 27, note on 18.
See Dr. Jacobi's edition, par. 36 (p. 44), and the same scholar's translation of the Kalpa-sätra, Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxii, p. 232.
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