"

" 2, sl. 2, " "harken" read "hearken."

" 79, sl. 303, " "equipage," read "vehicle."

" " " " _gadee_" read "seat."

Transcriber's Note: These corrections have been made in the text

INTRODUCTION.

Professor Stenzler enumerates[6] forty-six distinct Dharma Sastras
or recognised codes of Hindu law and ritual, _scil._

[3 cross symbols] 1. Agni.

[1 cross symbol] 2. Angiras.

[1 cross symbol] 3. Atri.

[1 cross symbol] 4. Apastamba.

[1 cross symbol] 5. Usanas.

[2 cross symbols] 6. Rishyasringa.

[2 cross symbols] 7. Kasyapa.

[1 cross symbol] 8. Katyayana.

[2 cross symbols] 9. Kuthumi.

[2 cross symbols] 10. Gargya.

[1 cross symbol] 11. Gautama.

[3 cross symbols] 12. Chyavana.

[3 cross symbols] 13. Ch'hagaleya.

[3 cross symbols] 14. Jatukarna.

[2 cross symbols] 15. Jabali.

[1 cross symbol] 16. Daksha.

[2 cross symbols] 17. Devala.

[2 cross symbols] 18. Narada.

[1 cross symbol] 19. Parasara.

[2 cross symbols] 20. Paraskara.

[3 cross symbols] 21. Pitamaha.

[2 cross symbols] 22. Pulastya.

[2 cross symbols] 23. Paithinasi.

[2 cross symbols] 24. Prachetas.

[3 cross symbols] 25. Prajapati.

[3 cross symbols] 26. Budha.

[1 cross symbol] 27. Brihaspati.

[2 cross symbols] 28. Baudhayana.

[2 cross symbols] 29. Bhrigu.

[1 cross symbol] 30. Manu.

[2 cross symbols] 31. Marichi.

[1 cross symbol] 32. Yama.

[1 cross symbol] 33. Yajnavalkya.

[1 cross symbol] 34. Likhita.

[2 cross symbols] 35. Laugakshi.

[1 cross symbol] 36. Vasishtha.

[2 cross symbols] 37. Viswamittra.

[1 cross symbol] 38. Vishnu.

[1 cross symbol] 39. Vyasa.

[1 cross symbol] 40. Sankha.

[1 cross symbol] 41. Satatapa.

[3 cross symbols] 42. Satyayana.

[1 cross symbol] 43. Samvartta.

[2 cross symbols] 44. Sumantu.

[3 cross symbols] 45. Soma.

[1 cross symbol] 46. Harita.

Of the above list, twenty (distinguished by one cross) are in
Yajnavalkya's list:[7] seventeen of these are named by Parasara,
_viz._ all except Yama, Brihaspati and Vyasa, instead of whom he gives
Kasyapa, Gargya and Prachetas: the _Padma Purana_ gives those
named by Yajnavalkya, with the exception of Atri, and seventeen
others, (distinguished by two crosses) three of whom, Prachetas,
Kasyapa and Gargya, are on Parasara's list, and the remaining
fourteen, not