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VISIHVU.
the sections referred to directly from an old recension of this
work, as Baudhayana has borrowed another chapter of his
work from Gautama, while VasishVza in his turn has bor-
rowed the same chapter from Baudhayana1. It may be
added in confirmation of this view, that as far as VasishZ/za
is concerned, his work is the only Smrz'ti, as far as I know,
which contains a quotation from the ‘ KaZ/zaka’ (in XXIX,
18). The Dharma-sutras of Apastamba and Gautama have
nowhere a large number of consecutive Sutras in common
with the Vishzzu-sutra, but it is curious to note that the
rule, which the latter (X, 45) quotes as the opinion of
‘ some ’ (eke), that a non-Brahmanical finder of a treasure,
who announces his find to the king, shall obtain one-sixth
of the value, is found in no other law-book except in this,
which states (III, 61) that a Sudra shall divide a treasure-
trove into twelve parts, two of which he may keep for him-
self. Of the metrical law-books, one, the Ya^navalkya-
smrz'ti, has been shown by Professor Max Muller2 to have
borrowed the whole anatomical section (III, 84-104), in-
cluding the simile of the soul which dwells in the heart like
a lamp (III, 109, in, 201), from this work (XCVI, 43—96;
XCVII, 9) ; and it has been pointed out by the same
scholar, that the verse in which the author of the former
work speaks of the Arazzyaka and of the Yoga-nstra as of
his own works (III, no) does not occur in the Vishzzu-sutra,
and must have been added by the versificator, who brought
the Ya^navalkya-smz'z'ti into its present metrical form.
Several other Slokas in Ya^navalkya’s description of the
human body (III, 99, 105-108), and nearly the whole sec-
tion on Yoga (Y. Ill, n 1-203, excepting those Xlokas,
the substance of which is found in this work and in the
code of Manu, viz. 131-140, 177-182, 190, 198-201) may be
traced to the same source, as may be also the omission of
Vishzzu’s enumeration of the ‘six limbs’ (XCVI, 90) in the
Yagnavalkya-smz'zti, and probably all the minor points on
which it differs from this work. Generally speaking, those
1 See Biihler, Introduction to Gautama, pp. 1-liv.
2 Hist. Anc. Sansk. Lit., p. 331.
VISIHVU.
the sections referred to directly from an old recension of this
work, as Baudhayana has borrowed another chapter of his
work from Gautama, while VasishVza in his turn has bor-
rowed the same chapter from Baudhayana1. It may be
added in confirmation of this view, that as far as VasishZ/za
is concerned, his work is the only Smrz'ti, as far as I know,
which contains a quotation from the ‘ KaZ/zaka’ (in XXIX,
18). The Dharma-sutras of Apastamba and Gautama have
nowhere a large number of consecutive Sutras in common
with the Vishzzu-sutra, but it is curious to note that the
rule, which the latter (X, 45) quotes as the opinion of
‘ some ’ (eke), that a non-Brahmanical finder of a treasure,
who announces his find to the king, shall obtain one-sixth
of the value, is found in no other law-book except in this,
which states (III, 61) that a Sudra shall divide a treasure-
trove into twelve parts, two of which he may keep for him-
self. Of the metrical law-books, one, the Ya^navalkya-
smrz'ti, has been shown by Professor Max Muller2 to have
borrowed the whole anatomical section (III, 84-104), in-
cluding the simile of the soul which dwells in the heart like
a lamp (III, 109, in, 201), from this work (XCVI, 43—96;
XCVII, 9) ; and it has been pointed out by the same
scholar, that the verse in which the author of the former
work speaks of the Arazzyaka and of the Yoga-nstra as of
his own works (III, no) does not occur in the Vishzzu-sutra,
and must have been added by the versificator, who brought
the Ya^navalkya-smz'z'ti into its present metrical form.
Several other Slokas in Ya^navalkya’s description of the
human body (III, 99, 105-108), and nearly the whole sec-
tion on Yoga (Y. Ill, n 1-203, excepting those Xlokas,
the substance of which is found in this work and in the
code of Manu, viz. 131-140, 177-182, 190, 198-201) may be
traced to the same source, as may be also the omission of
Vishzzu’s enumeration of the ‘six limbs’ (XCVI, 90) in the
Yagnavalkya-smz'zti, and probably all the minor points on
which it differs from this work. Generally speaking, those
1 See Biihler, Introduction to Gautama, pp. 1-liv.
2 Hist. Anc. Sansk. Lit., p. 331.