- Pulastya Pulastya’s name is among the ten primordial sages men tioned in the Manusmrti I. 34–35.
Pulastya is one of the expounders of dharma enumerated by Vrddha-Yājñavalkya. Viśvarūpa quotes a verse from him on sārīraśauca.604 The Mit. (on Yāj. I. 261 ) cites & verse from Pulastya that a Brāhmaṇa should principally use asce tic’s food (i. e. vegetable food ) in srāddha, that ksatriyas and vaisyas should use meat and būdras madhu.606 The Mit. (Yāj. III. 253 ) quotes two verses of Pulastya who enumerates eleven intoxicating drinks together with surā as the twelfth.806 Aparārka quotes several verses from Pulastya on saṁdhyā, Sraddha, asauca, duties of yatis, prayascitta. Aparārka quotes two verses from Pulastya propounding the view that a
601 सागमा दीर्घकाला चाविच्छिन्नापरवोज्झिता । प्रत्यर्थिसंनिधाना च भुक्तिः
पञ्चविधा स्मृता ॥ 602 स्वहस्तकाज्जानपदं तस्मात्तु नृपशासनम् । ततस्नैपुरुषो भोगः प्रमाणतरमिष्यते ॥ 603 ग्रामगोष्ठपुरश्रेणिसार्थसेनानिवासिनाम् । व्यवहारश्चरित्रेण निर्णेतव्यो बृहस्पतिः ॥ 804 स्नातकस्य त्रयोऽपाने पश्चापानेग्निहोत्रिणः । सर्वानेवं गृहस्थेषु शौचकल्पाभियोज
येत् । विश्वरूप on या. I. 17. 605 मुन्यन्नं ब्राह्मणस्योक्तं मांस क्षत्रियवैश्ययोः । मधुप्रदानं शूद्रस्य सर्वेषां चाविरोधि
यत् ॥ 606 पानसं द्राक्षमाधुकं खारं तालमैक्षवम् । मधूत्थं सैरमारिष्टं मैरेयं नारिकलनम्।
समानानि विजानीयान्मद्यान्येकादशैव तु । द्वादशं तु सुरामयं सर्वेषामधर्म स्मृतमा
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combination of jñāna and karma is the correct view.807 The first of these verses is ascribed by him to Yoga-Yājñavalkya elsewhere (note 336 ). The Smṛticandrika quotes about forty verses from Pulastya on āhnika and srāddha. In one place it quotes Pulastya on the efficacy of bathing on Sunday, Tuesday, and Saturday. Hos In another place it refers to the japa of Rāma, Paraśurāma, Nrsimha Trivikrama.
Aparārka (on p. 1136 ) quotes eight verses from Pulastya that provide various religious rites or actions for dog-bite in the case of brāhmana men and women.
The Dānaratnākara of Candeśvara cites a prose text from Pulastya on the gift of deer-skin.gog
The Pulastya-smrti must have been composed between 4th and 7th century A. D.