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non-occurrence of Mantras, peculiar to the MaitrayaniyaMânava school in the Manu-smriti, do not permit us to consider them as decisive for the settlement of the question. On the other hand, this negative result does not preclude the possibility that the supposed connexion between the original of the Manu-smriti and the Mânava school may nevertheless have existed. For the examples of the Hairanyakesas and Madhyamdinas show that the Satras, adopted by a school, are not always composed by one and the same teacher, but sometimes are made up of fragments originally belonging to different authors. In the case of the Madhyamdinas the author of the Srauta-sútra is a Katyayana, while the Grihya-sūtra bears the name of a Paraskara. In the case of the Hairanyakesas the Dharmasútra, though it is ascribed to Hiranyakesin Satyashadha, is in reality the work of Âpastamba, and differs both in its language and in its contents very much from the Grihya-sūtra 1. Moreover, the Hairanyakesa Kayanasútra has been taken over, as its colophon clearly proves, from the Bharadvagas. It is, therefore, still possible that the ancient Mânava Dharma-sätra was considered as the special property of the Mânavas, but was not composed by the same teacher as the Grihya-sůtra, or that, though both works had the same author, the materials for their composition were borrowed from different sources. Either supposition would explain the discrepancies between the two works. If we now could show that some other work belonging to the Månava Karana shows a special affinity to the Manu-smriti, the view that the original of the latter was first the property of that school might be still upheld. A renewed examination of the various treatises, studied and claimed as their own by the Mänavas, has convinced me that such a connecting link is actually found among them. This is the Sraddhakalpa, a description of the ordinary funeral sacrifices which the Mânava Grihyasútra does not treat in detail, but barely touches in the sections on the Ashtaká rites (II, 8-9). If this treatise has not been taken into consideration by Professor Jolly and
Sacred Books of the East, vol. ii, p. xxiii.
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