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NARADA.
taken from the every-clay life of his period, which help to
throw some light on the practical working of Indian Law
in those times. As an instance of this tendency I would
cite his remarks on a rule concerning liability for debts
(pp. 43, 44). Of course it would be dangerous to trust his
philological skill everywhere, and some of his interpreta-
tions are decidedly artificial. What is worse, the Com-
mentary of Asahaya has not been preserved in its original
shape, but in a recast due to one Kalyazzabha/Za, whose
name is entirely unknown to fame. It is just possible that
Kalya^abha/Za, instead of confining his activity to sup-
plying deficiencies and correcting mistakes in the copies
of Asahaya’s Commentary, may have inserted some new
verses in the text of the Narada-smrz’ti as well. Such
might be conjectured, for example, to be the origin of the
four verses, Introd. I, 21—24 (pp. 9-13), which are quoted
in none of the authoritative Digests, and objectionable as to
grammar and metre. It should be remembered, however,
that KalyazzabhaZZa declares the original work of Asahaya
to have been spoiled by negligent scribes, and so the
grammatical blunders may be charged to their account.
The latter half of Asahaya’s Commentary being lost, I
had to avail myself for the corresponding portion of the
Other auxiliary Narada-smrzti, of the glosses of other me-
wntings. diaeval writers, by whom the texts of Na-
rada have been quoted and discussed a great deal. Their
opinions have been adverted to very fully, in the chapter
on inheritance especially, both on account of the practical
importance of inheritance for the law-courts of modern
India, and because each of the various schools of Sanskrit
lawyers has been anxious to interpret the sayings of Na-
rada to its own advantage. For the curious and some-
what obscure disquisition on fourteen kinds of impotency
(XII, 11-18, pp. 167-169), I have been able to use the
advice of my late lamented friend Dr. Haas, the well-known
student of Indian medical science. A somewhat analogous
passage in the canonical literature of the Buddhists has
been kindly pointed out to me by Mr. Rhys Davids1.
1 Aullavagga X, 17, 1. See Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx, p. 349.
NARADA.
taken from the every-clay life of his period, which help to
throw some light on the practical working of Indian Law
in those times. As an instance of this tendency I would
cite his remarks on a rule concerning liability for debts
(pp. 43, 44). Of course it would be dangerous to trust his
philological skill everywhere, and some of his interpreta-
tions are decidedly artificial. What is worse, the Com-
mentary of Asahaya has not been preserved in its original
shape, but in a recast due to one Kalyazzabha/Za, whose
name is entirely unknown to fame. It is just possible that
Kalya^abha/Za, instead of confining his activity to sup-
plying deficiencies and correcting mistakes in the copies
of Asahaya’s Commentary, may have inserted some new
verses in the text of the Narada-smrz’ti as well. Such
might be conjectured, for example, to be the origin of the
four verses, Introd. I, 21—24 (pp. 9-13), which are quoted
in none of the authoritative Digests, and objectionable as to
grammar and metre. It should be remembered, however,
that KalyazzabhaZZa declares the original work of Asahaya
to have been spoiled by negligent scribes, and so the
grammatical blunders may be charged to their account.
The latter half of Asahaya’s Commentary being lost, I
had to avail myself for the corresponding portion of the
Other auxiliary Narada-smrzti, of the glosses of other me-
wntings. diaeval writers, by whom the texts of Na-
rada have been quoted and discussed a great deal. Their
opinions have been adverted to very fully, in the chapter
on inheritance especially, both on account of the practical
importance of inheritance for the law-courts of modern
India, and because each of the various schools of Sanskrit
lawyers has been anxious to interpret the sayings of Na-
rada to its own advantage. For the curious and some-
what obscure disquisition on fourteen kinds of impotency
(XII, 11-18, pp. 167-169), I have been able to use the
advice of my late lamented friend Dr. Haas, the well-known
student of Indian medical science. A somewhat analogous
passage in the canonical literature of the Buddhists has
been kindly pointed out to me by Mr. Rhys Davids1.
1 Aullavagga X, 17, 1. See Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx, p. 349.