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| | - Women In The Sacred Laws - The Commentaries And Digests On Hindu ( Page 1) |
 | | The new authors confined themselves to exploring and investigating the essence of Smrti and determining Smrti in theory and practice. |
 | | The earliest of these commentaries is the Asahaya Bhashya on the Nard Smrti, its date being later than the 5th century A.D. Other commentaries of considerable importance are Medhatithi, Mitakshara, Vivadachintamani, Viramitrodaya, Smrti-Chandrika, Madhaviya, Sarasvativilasa, Vaijayanti, Balambhatta Nandapandita and the rest. |
 | | As Manu was considered the highest authority on law, a host of commentaries on his laws, evidently as expositions of the inner meaning of his rules, came to be written. |
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