आश्वलायन गृह्यसूत्र (अनाविला टीका व हिन्दी व्याख्या सहित)

PREFACE.

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The Āsvalāyanagrihya with the Vritti Anāvilā of Haradattāchārya Misra is now given to the public.

The edition of the work is based on the following five palm-leaf manuscripts which are almost free from errors.

(क) The text with a portion of the Anāvilā running up to the third Khanda in the second Adhyāya belonging to Mr. Subrahmanyan Numburipad, Kaduthuruthi, Vaikom.

(ख) Do. with the Anāvilā belonging to Mr. Narayanan Bhattathiri, Mulamana Illam, Thukalasseri, Thiruvella.

(ग) Do. Do. belonging to Mr Sankara Bhattathiri, Kuzhikkattu Illam, Thukalasseri, Thiruvella.

(घ) Do. Do. belonging to Mr. Yajnasubrahmanya Srauti, Trivandrum.

(ङ) Do. Do. belonging to Mr. Thuppan Haridasan Numburipad, Ponnorkottu Mana, Netunthuruthi.

All these manuscripts are in Malayalam characters except the one marked घ which is in Tamil grantha.

This Vritti differs in many places from that of Gārgya Nārāyaṇa published in the Bibliotheca Indica many years ago, in respect of the reading of the Sūtras, the division of the Sūtras and Khaṇḍas as well as the interpretation. From the simple and dignified nature of elucidation, the present Vritti looks almost like a Bhāshya; and Gārgya Nārāyaṇa who has not followed this Vritti or made any mention of it in his commentary appears not to have seen it at all. The terse and beautiful style characteristic of Haradatta as found in his works viz., Padamanjarī a commentary on the Kāsikā Vritti, Mitākshara a Vritti on the Gautama Dharma Sūtra, and Srutisūktimālā, is also observable throughout the Anāvilā; and from this it seems likely that Haradatta, the author of the Anāvilā, is no other person than the author of the Padamanjarī and other works.

Haradatta is quoted in the Purushakāra (Trivandrum Sanskrit Series No. 1) which is again referred to in the Dhātuvritti of Mādhavāchārya. Since the date of Purushakāra, as stated in our introduction to the work, is assigned to the 13th century A. D., Haradatta quoted in it should be earlier than that date. Saranadeva the author of the