Manu and Bṛihaspati

In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 1 (1887), pp. 275-280

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Abstract

The very particular importance which belongs to the mutual relations between the Manu and Brihaspati Smritis for all attempts at fixing the date of the former work has been pointed out very recently in the Introduction to Professor BÜHLER's translation of Manu. Professor BÜHLER, while adopting the conclusions to which an examination of the references to Manu in the fragments of Brihaspati had led me, has observed that the instances of such references to which I had adverted might be extended. This observation is quite correct, and it may not be out of place to resume the whole question and to collect as much as possible the whole evidence regarding the mutual relations between the Code of Mann and the fragments attributed to Brihaspati.