Vo 1 Angiri (crude form Angiras wrote a short treatise containing about seventy couplets. Pama or Jama, composed a short tract containing a hundred couplets. Aroastamba was the author of a law tract in prose, which is extant as well as an abridgment of it in verse. - The metrical abridgment only of the institutes of Samvarta is found in this country. Kázydowana is author of a clear and full treatise on law and also wrote on grammar and other subjects. An abridgment of the institutes, if not the code at large, of Vrihaspati, is extant. The treatise of Partisara, which consists of the dichtira and právaschitta kāndas, is extant. Wyssa is the reputed author of the Purúnas: he is also the author of some works nuore immediately connected with the law. Sankha and Likhita are the joint authors of a work in prose, which has been abridged in - よエ。 verse: their separate tracts in verse are also extant. Daksha composed a law treatise in verse. Goutama, is the author of an elegant treatise, although texts are cited in the name of His fatlıer Gotama, the son of Utathya. Saitotapet is the author of a treatise on penance and expiation, of which an abridgment in verse is extant.
Washishtha is the last of twenty legislators named by Joynyavalkya : his elegant work in prose is intermixed with verse. " Besides the Samhitās above mentioned, there is cztant a part of Núradu's Sanhitoi ; and some texts of the other sages, .cxcept Kuthwmi, Buddha, Sátáyana, and a few more (whose T'achanas and names rarely occur in any compilation) are seen cited in the digests and cotırımerı taries.” The works of the sages do not treat of every subject as the institutes of Manu do ; and it is the opinion of Pandits that the entire work of none of the sages, with the cxception of Manor, has conne down to the present times. There are glosses and commentaries on some of the principal institutes, which last, but for them, would have been very imperfectly understood, may some parts thereof would have been given up as unmeaning or obsolete. Various glosses on the institutes of Manu are said to have been written by the Munis or old philosophers, whose treatises were esteemed as next to tle institutes theimselves. These, except that of Bhoiguri, do not appear to be extant. Among the modern commentaries, that by Medhtitithi son of Piraswami Bhatta, which having been partly lost has been completed by other h on is at the court of Mod an optilis, a prince of Dign, therefore, loo; prior to thosc inscription 3.” Lu addition to this, p *ssages from Joynyavalkyle are sound in the Pancha-fantra, which will throw the date of the composition of his work at least as far back as the fifth century, and it is probable even that it may have originated at a much more remote period. It seems, however, that it is not earlier than the second century of the Christian era, since Professor Wilson supposes the name ..f a cotain Muni, Nwaka, which name is found in Joznyavtzova's institutes, originated about that time. Morley's Introduction to the Hindu Law, pp. 11, 12. *
- Professor Stenzler enumerates forty-six legislators, who are the same as mentioned in the lists or Jingnyara/Asyu, Parāsara, Padmapuriana, and Ramkrishna, already given; and he considers them all to be extant, having himself met with quotations from all, except Agni, Kutkumi, Zouddhir, Shātāyana, and Soma.
