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"The literature on Dharmasastra," observed, NM. Kane, "falls into three well marked but somewhat overlapping perio The first period in which the ancient Dharmasutra and the Manusmrti were written cover the period from the sixt century B.C. upto the beginning of the christian ere. The second period ranges from the first century 1.7. upto about 800 a.d. During this period the versified smrtis were Jo:nposed. The third period is that of the commentaries, digests and nibandhas. This period covers more than one thousand years from the seventh century upto the eighteenth century

18 A.D. The general tendency from the twelfth century onwards, was to write works in the nature of digests containing a syntheses of all the dicta of smrti writers 20 topics of Dharma. There is no hard and fast line of e- 49 marcation between a tika and a nibandha or digest".* while the Dharmasutras posses a considerable antiquity, the metrical smrtis cannot be equally ancient because there is much in their form that is modern. As the metrical smrtis are later than the Dharmasutras, it may be probable that each. of them is based on a particular Dharmasutra.