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( 7 ) 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.