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NARADA.
statement of the value of a Dinara which, it says, is called
a Suvarzza also. The reception of Dinaras among the
ordinary coins of that period shows that their circulation in
India must have commenced some time before the Narada-
smrzti was written. The first importation of gold Dinaras
into India cannot be referred to an earlier period than the
time of the Roman emperors, and the gold Dinaras most
numerously found in India belong to the third century A. D.]
The earliest reference to a work called Naradiya
References to Dharma^astra seems to be contained in a
Narada. work of the sixth century, Bazza’s Kadam-
bari1 2. Whether the compiler of the Pazz^atantra was ac-
quainted with the Narada-smrz’ti appears to be doubtful.
The Pazz^atantra in Kosegarten’s edition contains a legal
text which is attributed to Narada, though it is not to be
found in the Narada-smz-Tti. The standard Bombay edition
of the Pazz^atantra has that very text, but the name of
Narada is omitted 3. Medhatithi’s Manubhashya, which
seems to belong to the ninth century, contains several
references to the Narada-smrzti, and Asahaya, who appears
to have preceded Medhatithi, is the reputed author of the
ancient Commentary on it, which has largely been used for
the present work 4.
These considerations tend to show that the composition
of the Narada-smzTti cannot be referred to
Result. .
a more recent period than the fifth century
A.D., or the sixth century at the very latest. Nor can it
belong to a much earlier age than that. This estimate of
its age agrees with the results arrived at, thirteen years ago,
from the very scanty data then available.
1 Buhler, S. B. E., vol. xxv, p. cvii; West and Biihler, p. 48 ; Max Muller,
History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 245 ; Jolly, Tagore Law Lectures,
p. 36 ; Homie, Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of Orientalists, p. 134.
2 P. 91 in Peterson’s edition. See Buhler, Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxv,
p. cvii, note 1.
3 See Kosegarten’s Pa«/Jatantra III, 94; Bombay ed., Ill, 2. It is true that
the two texts immediately preceding the text in question in the PawZ’atantra
may be compared with Narada XI, 2 and I, 5, 79.
4 The fact that Asahaya refers to a coin called dramma, i. e. the Greek
may be used for fixing the earlier limit of his date.
NARADA.
statement of the value of a Dinara which, it says, is called
a Suvarzza also. The reception of Dinaras among the
ordinary coins of that period shows that their circulation in
India must have commenced some time before the Narada-
smrzti was written. The first importation of gold Dinaras
into India cannot be referred to an earlier period than the
time of the Roman emperors, and the gold Dinaras most
numerously found in India belong to the third century A. D.]
The earliest reference to a work called Naradiya
References to Dharma^astra seems to be contained in a
Narada. work of the sixth century, Bazza’s Kadam-
bari1 2. Whether the compiler of the Pazz^atantra was ac-
quainted with the Narada-smrz’ti appears to be doubtful.
The Pazz^atantra in Kosegarten’s edition contains a legal
text which is attributed to Narada, though it is not to be
found in the Narada-smz-Tti. The standard Bombay edition
of the Pazz^atantra has that very text, but the name of
Narada is omitted 3. Medhatithi’s Manubhashya, which
seems to belong to the ninth century, contains several
references to the Narada-smrzti, and Asahaya, who appears
to have preceded Medhatithi, is the reputed author of the
ancient Commentary on it, which has largely been used for
the present work 4.
These considerations tend to show that the composition
of the Narada-smzTti cannot be referred to
Result. .
a more recent period than the fifth century
A.D., or the sixth century at the very latest. Nor can it
belong to a much earlier age than that. This estimate of
its age agrees with the results arrived at, thirteen years ago,
from the very scanty data then available.
1 Buhler, S. B. E., vol. xxv, p. cvii; West and Biihler, p. 48 ; Max Muller,
History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 245 ; Jolly, Tagore Law Lectures,
p. 36 ; Homie, Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of Orientalists, p. 134.
2 P. 91 in Peterson’s edition. See Buhler, Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxv,
p. cvii, note 1.
3 See Kosegarten’s Pa«/Jatantra III, 94; Bombay ed., Ill, 2. It is true that
the two texts immediately preceding the text in question in the PawZ’atantra
may be compared with Narada XI, 2 and I, 5, 79.
4 The fact that Asahaya refers to a coin called dramma, i. e. the Greek
may be used for fixing the earlier limit of his date.