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NEW MATERIALS FOR HISTORICAL STUDY OF HINDU LAW.
Lecture
II.
Procedure is seen in a far more advanced state of progress
in the Narada-smriti than in any of the Smritis previously
noticed. These circumstances, while rendering the Narada-
smriti peculiarly attractive and interesting to the student
of Indian law, show that it could hardly be a modernized
Dkarmasutra, and stamp it as the production of a compa-
ratively recent age. Other internal and circumstantial
evidence helping to determine the cldte of this Smriti has
been collected in the Introduction to my English version of
the Institutes of Narada, the result being that the composi-
tion of this work has to be placed in the 5th or 6th
century A. D. The recently discovered fragment of
another version of the Narada-smriti, different from the
current one, will be discussed in the next Lecture, together
with other Smriti fragments and with the minor Smritis.
NEW MATERIALS FOR HISTORICAL STUDY OF HINDU LAW.
Lecture
II.
Procedure is seen in a far more advanced state of progress
in the Narada-smriti than in any of the Smritis previously
noticed. These circumstances, while rendering the Narada-
smriti peculiarly attractive and interesting to the student
of Indian law, show that it could hardly be a modernized
Dkarmasutra, and stamp it as the production of a compa-
ratively recent age. Other internal and circumstantial
evidence helping to determine the cldte of this Smriti has
been collected in the Introduction to my English version of
the Institutes of Narada, the result being that the composi-
tion of this work has to be placed in the 5th or 6th
century A. D. The recently discovered fragment of
another version of the Narada-smriti, different from the
current one, will be discussed in the next Lecture, together
with other Smriti fragments and with the minor Smritis.