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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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himself and of his commentator. To begin with We are looking forward very much to Prof. the latter, the proofs furnished by Prof. Bühler that Bühler's promised full discussion of the lanHaradatta cannot have lived later than about guage of Apastamba. For the present, we are A. D. 1450-1500 are convincing. The question glad to obtain the valuable evidence regarding it, as to his identity with Haradattamisra, the author which he has collected from the quotations conof the Padamañjari, who is quoted by Så yana, tained in A parárka's commentary of the Yajñahas been left open by Prof. Bühler. It has been valkyasmrti, and Yadavaprakasa's Vaijayanti, as answered in the affirmative by Aufrecht in his well as from the various new MSS. used for the Catalogus Catalogorum, s. v. Haradatta, and the notes to the present edition, and from the various Sarvadarkanasangraha reference to Haradatta readings of the Hiranyakefi-Dharmasútra making which is given in the same work (see p. 104 in up the second appendix. Gough's transl.), renders it extremely probable
The new MSS. used are six in number, and the that Sayana-Madhava was acquainted with the
total of the MSS. underlying this new edition writings of Haradatta who must have lived, con.
amounts to thirteen. In the editor's pedigree of sequently, about 1300 A. D. An examination of
these MSS. the Grantha copies occupy the most those references to the opinions of Haradatta
prominent place, and appear to have enabled him which may be collected from Eggeling's Catalogue
to reproduce, as closely as possible, the text settled of the Legal MSS. in the India Office Library
by Haradatta. The interpolations and false read tends to confirm this view. Thus he is quoted in
ings in the other copies seem to be due principally the Prayogapúrijáta, Vidhinapdrijáta, Viramitro.
to marginal notes having crept into the text of the daya, Govindarnava, Smrtikaustubha, and Chatur.
Sútras, and to the influence of Hairanyakesa vimsatimatavgalchayana. The importance of the
Brahmans who substituted the readings of their reference to Haradatta in the Viramitrodaya,
own Dharmasútra for those of Apa stamba's which was composed in the first half of the
Both works were closely related from the first, seventeenth century, has already been brought out as may be gathered from the above-mentioned by Prof. Bühler. Nearly all the other works also
varietas lectionis at the end of the volume under belong to the same century, except Nrsihha's
notice. Prayogapúrijata, in which Haradatta's com
Owing to the new materials used and new prinmentary on the Apastambasútra is distinctly referred to (Catalogue of the T. O., 3, 416).
ciples adopted in preparing the present edition, it Though Dr. Burnell has certainly gone too far in
differs in many places from its predecessor. Most making of Nộsimha an author of the twelfth
of these alterations, however, are important in century (Tanjore Cat., 131), he cannot be placed
point of language only, and consist either of the much later than about 1400 A.D., As an old MS.
substitution of obsolete and ungrammatical forms
for ordinary ones, or of corrections, a certain of his work is dated Sam. 1495; it is true that he
portion of the latter having been first proposed refers to the Pardéaravyákhyd of Madhava, who flourished in the second half of the fourteenth
conjecturally by Dr. Böhtlingk in the Journal of
the German Oriental Society. It may not be out of century. The early MS. in question has been
place here to advert to a valuable essay published noticed in R. Mitra's Bikaner Catalogue, p. 439.
by Dr. Winternitz in the Memoirs of the Vienna The fact that Haradatta is mentioned by an
Academy for 1892 on Indian Marriage Ceremonies author of the early part of the fifteenth century strengthens the supposition that his writings were
in which the language of Apastamba's Grhyasútra not unknown to the most eminent writer of the
has been discussed very carefully, the results latter part of the fourteenth century.
agreeing with those arrived at by Prof. Bühler
for the Dharmasútra. The early date and high standing of Haradatta The second volume of the work under notice, tends to justify the method observed in the present like the first, is not a mere reprint of the previous edition, as indeed in the former one, of giving the edition, the new MSS. used for the extracts fr text of Åpastamba's Satras As established by Haradatta's commentary having suggested a good Haradatta. This method precludes the conjectural
118 method precludes the conjectural many alterations, additions, and omissions. Anemendation of many ungrammatical forms and other new feature of the same volume is the phrases. tempting as it may seem to substitute complete Index Verborun by Dr. Th. Bloch, an grammatically correct forms for the "medley of able and learned pupil of Profs. Windisch and Vedic, classical and Prekstic forms "in the present Bühler. work.
J. JOLLY.
1 The date of the Govinuraava is uncertain.
