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A ground-plan of the Vyavaharakanda
(1) The Vyavahāra-kāņda is divided ed, we have followed the order in which into two parts; one concerns itself with they have been mentioned by Prof. Kane the elements of the legal procedure in his history of Dharmas'āstra, vol. I. ( CITAT:) and the other with the (6) Texts even with a similar purport eighteen titles of law (faqlc41f). The from the Srutis and the Smrtis have been section on Vivāda padāni comprises quoted in full. Some texts have been attritwent topics.
buted to different Smstis by the writers (2) Every possible endeavour has been of legal treatises; these texts have been made to arrange, chronologically, the quoted separately under the name of texts from the S'rutis, Sūtras, Smrtis each Smrti-writer according to their and treatises and the commentaries on topical order. Likewise, when a text them.
occurs only incidentally in a certain topic (3) The commentaries on the S'rutis, and has an essential connection with Sūtras and Smstis are placed immediately another, it has been mentioned under after them, and according to their chro- both topics. nological order; for example under the (7) For every text the oldest commentpassage dage fa, Rv. I. 124.7 (p.20), the aries have been as far as possible cited. explanation from the Nirukta has been (8) The commentary of the earliest first given and then follows the relevant authors has been first given in full Bhāşya of SĀyaņa; so also under 347ETT- and the commentaries of the later fragt Manu (p. 21), extracts from authors which coincide in all respects, Medhatithi, Govindarajiya, Aparărka, or in some respects with that of the Smr'ticandrika and other works have earlier ones have not been repeated; but, been given in their chronological order. a note has been made on the earlier
(4) For the S'ruti works the order comment showing the degree of coinadopted is as follows: the Samhitas of the cidence and the respects, in which e. g. Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda explanations of words or sentences, and the Atharvaveda ; then the Brahma- citations of other views,' refutation, the nås in the same order as their Samhitis. conclusion arrived at or the summary Since all the Såma-verses are derived of results, it agrees with the later one; from the Rigveda, they must be both re- e. g. when the commentary of Aparārka garded as of the same epoch European coincides with the Mitakşarī there is a scholars place the Atharvaveda immedia- | mote on the passage from the latter अप. मिताtely after the Rigveda : but, we have not 794 or 079. Harda, i.e. Aparärka. coincides attached any importance to this se- with Mitaksarä; 04. 1999f fastad or har quence followed by them.
ta: would show that their senses coincide; (5) In the case of many Smstis it is not 319. uri faac or Hals: would show that possible to determine their dates of com- their explanation of the words of the text position even in a very tentative manner. coincides ; 379. haramia would show that Extracts from Smrtis, with a well-ascer- although the Aparärka explains the Smrti tained chronology, have been given in texts in some respects differently,its purtheir chronological order; in the case of port is the same as that of the Mitakşarā; those whose dates have not been determin- 374.748 would show that the inter
