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

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श्रूयते मनुना गीतो श्लोकौ चारित्र वत्सलौ ।
गृहीतौ धर्मकुशलैस्तत्तथा चरितं हरे ॥ ३१ ॥
राजभिर्धृतदण्डास्तु कृत्वा पापानि मानवाः ।
निर्मलाः स्वर्गमायान्ति सन्तः सुकृतिनो यथा ॥ ३२ ॥
शासनाद्वा विमोक्षाद्वा स्तेनः स्तेयाद्विमुच्यते ।
राजा त्वशासन्पापस्य तदवाप्नोति किल्विषम् ॥ ३३ ॥
The verse 32nd is Manusmriti VIII. 38, and
verse 33rd is Manu VIII. 316.
It may, therefore, after this beief discussion be
safely concluded that the original Smriti of Manu
was like the present one composed in verse.1
V. THE SMRITI OF BRIHASPATI.
Like its original, the Manusmriti, the Smriti of
Brihaspati was also in verse. That work is however
lost now (if it may not be unearthed by some future
researches). The small collection of some shlokas
which is generally called the Brihaspati Smriti
is but a child’s play as compared with the Bárhaspatya
Shástra referred to in the Mahábhárata. Professor
Julius Jolly collected fragments of Brihaspatismriti
from different law books and and their commentaries,
for translating them in the S. B. E. Vol. XXXIII
But these fragments are also incomplete. An exhaustive
collection of all the sayings of Brihaspati will not be a
fruitless task for some future scholar.2
1 I hope to discuss this subject in detail at some later
date.
2 After the above lines were written I read in the Vedic
Magazine that Pandit Jaideva Vidyalankar of the Gurukul
Kangri is busy with this work and will shortly bring out
this useful collection.