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' (4) PROSE, VERSE & MIXED : i The stylistic feature of the Smrti literature is that it has been handed down in prose, verse, & mixed prose & verse form. The Dharmasutra of Gautama is completely in aphoristic prose style. While there are numerous metrical Smrtis like those of Manu, Yajnavalkya etc. that are completely in verse form. But there are also some Dharmasutras & Smrtis, that contain both prose sutras & verses also. Hence it is not quite unfair to believe that a mixed style was also current by the Smrti literature, as the use of both verses & prose-sutras, are found. 16 Some scholars like Max Muller & others, believe that
the works in continuous anustubh metre followed sutra works.
This view is not admitted by Mm. P. V. Kane; while Prof.K. V. Rangasvami
17 Aiyangar propounds even a third intermediate stage of mixed
form of Smrti literature. He observes, "that this form, was an
intermediate stage in the transition to Smrtis, which used
verse alone, is denoted by the increasing number of verses, as
compared with prose in Visnusmrti, which has nearly 550 verses,
as compared, for example, with Vasisthasmrti, which though
smaller has over 200 verses. In the old sutra-works, like those
of Apastamba & Kautilya, there is a sensible verse content,
but it is relatively small in comparision with the prose". He also
maintains that a Smrti, wholly in verse & in the developed
sloka form suggests a later stage in evolution, than one which is
in prose & verse, & uses other old metres, besides the anustubh.
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