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( 9 ) VIII. A BARHASPATYA SAMHITA. There is another treatise connected with the name of Brihaspati. It is the Bârhaspatya Samhitā. We find it often quoted in the गजलक्षण प्रकरण of लक्षणप्रकाश of वीरमित्रोदय. It is in the form of a dialogue between Nahusha and Brihaspati. The work is in the mixed style of prose and verse. This Samhitâ also, as is apparent from the numerous quotations in the above mentioned work, bears no connection with the present sûtras. ————— IX. WAS BRIHASPATI A CARVAKA ? No doubt, there was a great atheistic logician Brihaspati by name; but was he the writer on polity ? Somadeva Suri (10th century A. D.) says in his Yashastilaka बृहस्पतिनीतय इवादेवमातृका (p. 13 Nir- nayasagar 1901) and his commentator Shrutasagar Suri says बृहस्पतिनीतय इव । यथा बृहस्पतिनीतयश्चार्वाकशास्त्राणि देवं सर्वज्ञादिविशेषं न मन्यन्ते । So, according to the com- mentator the Nîtikâra Brihaspati was the renowned Cârvâka. However, all the previous quotations go against this view. Brihaspati the politian, being connected with Manu and others of the theistic school, was certainly a theist. Somadeva and his commentator confuse the two Brihaspatis. There have been thus three eminent persons at least known by the name Brihaspati in the literary history of Bhârata. The first and the most well-known was Brihaspati, the writer on polity; secondly Brihaspati, the cârvâka logician, and thirdly the person who wrote the samhitâ.