बार्हस्पत्य सूत्र / अर्थशास्त्र (महर्षि बृहस्पति - प्राचीन दण्डनीति, राजधर्म एवं कूटनीति सटीक)

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संवत्सरेण पतति पतितेन सहा- | संवत्सरेण पतति पतितेन समा
चरन् । याजनाध्यापनाद्यौनान्न तु | चरन्। याजनाध्यापनाद्यौनात्तैश्चा-
यानासनाशनात् ॥११।१८०*॥ | न्योऽपि समाचरन्॥ कौ०पृ०२१६†
Here, Professor D. R. Bhandarkar following the
lead of Buhler arrives at the result that ‘ the verses
(above quoted) were not composed by Kautilya but
were utilised by him from some work which was in
existence long before he wrote or the (metrical) Manu
Smriti was compiled.’ This is nothing but a prejudice in
order to bring down the date of Manusmriti. First a theory
is started—Manusmriti is accepted to belong to a later
date,—and then if any work anterior to that date is
found containing the verses of Manusmriti, (although
not mentioning this fact but still indicating that the
verses are not his own) it is said that the work in ques-
tion and the Manusmriti both utilised a material of
a very old period. Both this assumption and conclusion
do not seem to be convincing.
Last of all we may refer to two verses, to be
found in the 18th Sarga of Valmiki Ramayana, where
the author of that work explicitly says that the
following two shlokas were sung by Manu :—

• Vasistha 1. 22 ; Baudhayana II. 1. 35 and Vishnu.
  † My friend Pandit Nanak Chandra B. A. informs me that
  Maskri and Hardatta on Gautama Dharma Sutra have got
  the first half of this verse on the name of Kanva. They both
  give समाचरन् in place of सहाचरन्, Hardatta at the same
  time quotes the full verse from Manu also with the words
  इति मानवम् . There also the first half of the verse has समाचरन्
  and the second half has exactly the same words as in the
  present day Manu.