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Dharmasutra Parallels: Containing the Dharmasutras of Apastambha, Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha. Edited and translated by Patrick OLIVELLE. DELHI: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2005. Pp. 230. Rs. 29700.
This extremely useful work lays out, in synoptic fashion, the parallel passages found in the early dharmasütras - the legal treatises, mostly in prose, associated with particular Vedic schools, that precede the major s dharmasästras, especially the Mänava Dharma Sastra, the law code of Manu. It is organized...