Essay name: Devala-smriti (critical study)
Author:
Mukund Lalji Wadekar
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit
This essay represents an English study of the Devala-smriti鈥攁n ancient text attributed to sage Devala classified as belonging to the Dharma-Shastra branch of Indian literature which encompasses jurisprudence and religious law. This study deals with the reconstructed text of the Devala-smriti based on surviving references, emphasizing Devala鈥檚 unique viewpoints on social, religious, and philosophical aspects, particularly the Sankhya and Yoga philosophies.
Chapter 2 - Devala鈥攈is bio-data
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) 64 "The Nyaya existed in some form as early as the 4th century
B.C....... Some of the present sutras were written sometime in
2nd century A.D.". "The Vaisesika sutras are probably
>>pre-buddhistic". "It seems to me to be perfectly certain that
the Vaisesikasutras were written before Caraka (80 A.D.).
Cf.A Hist.of Indian Philosophy
of Prof.S.Dasgupta, Vol. I, pp. 279鈥�80.
11)
Dates as given by Mm.P.V.Kane
Table, pp.XIV-XV.
C
H.D.S.Vol. V, Pt. II, Chronological
12)
"Iks aternas abdam" ityarabhya pradhanak膩ranavadah s奴traireva
1 punah punar膩s a峁卥ya nir膩krta岣�/. 鈥︹�︹��..sa ca karyak膩ra峁嚹乶anyatv膩bhyu-
pagamat praty膩s anno vedantavadasya devalaprabhrtibhisca
kaisciddharmas奴trak膩rai岣� svagranthes vasrita岣�/ Tena tatpratise-
dhe yatno'tiva krto nanvadikaranav膩de/
Bh.S.S., I.4.28.
13) Cf.n. 10 above for dates.
14) Cf.n.2 above.
15) Cr.Pt. I, Sect. I, Ch. II-B.
16) "According to this, the Mahabharata cannot have received
its present form, earlier than the 4th century B.C. & not
later than the 4th century A.D."
Prof. M.Winternitz
A Hist. of
Indian Literature, Trans. by S.
Ketkar,
Vol. I, p.465.
