336 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [September, 1912. 


Angirasa (variants, ear ta Visvaripa (once). 
Angirah, Angirasa, | Pracetah. | Vrhaspati. 
Angirah). Vv iat Praveosh (var.? | V rhad: -Vrhaspati. 
“ re °Pracetah). Vy 
Apah (? Apastamba). udhayana. lv Thad Aue 
Apastamba (44 times). Bhavisyat-purana | Sank 
epg ree pd Sosigye | ey Tikhita. 
a. | Satatapa. 
Raipkyena: (? Katya- | Mano or chia): et 
yana). Bs -Manu. Vrhad-Satatapa. 
Kumara. _ Srikara (twice). 
Gotama (var., Gau-| “Vrhd-Yama, Sat-trithgon-mate (4 
tama). pa-Y | tim 
Gunama (? Gautama). ‘Yajdavalkys (46 | gan en 
Chagaleya, es). Vrh \d-Sarnvart, 
Jaimini. “Yout-Yajnavallya Suman . 
Devala. Laughaksi 
2 eaonig (5 times). Trae Harita. 
Narada. 
Paraéara (var., Para- | Visn Svalpa-Harita. 
ra). 
Vrhad- Lindy ae re 
Pulastya. | Vigvam 
It will be seen that the largest references are to Manu, 
Yajiavalkya, and Apastamba. The other sages were also 
well known, and more than twenty-five have been named. 
Several were known under various recensions, such as Manu, 
ad-M° and so on. Among the Puranas the Matsya and 
the Bhavisyat, and as distinguished from the smrti-writer 
the philosopher Yogi-Yajfiavalkya, have been quoted. oO 
later productions one finds the compilation from  thirty- 
in the fourth chapter, a11h4 acai aBawa, ata meee | 
fafed .. . . aafy aaeifeareguaifeqeasts (fol. 326)— 
ufefusrfafeaargaaa waq. again in the fifth chapter 
it earns azaA (fol. 42a). 
The work appears to have been treated as an authority 
on expiations. For example, in the Smrti-ratn-akara, a wor 
fairly ex the author Vedacarya begins the section on prayaé- 
citta thu 
~~ 
men” wazafe ama | 
srafenad ae fase urutaeqat i 80] 
So too in the Prayasécitta-samgraha of Heceyaue Bhatta 
quotations from Bhavadeva appear as authoritative.! 

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