Articles discussing Apastamba
Apastamba Dharma-Sūtra and Its Predecessors
Surabhi Sheth · Sambodhi, 1979
“Here an attempt is made to study predecessors of Apastamba from the various references occurring in the Apatamba-Dharma~Siitra (AP, Dh.S. or AP.). The: AP. Dh. S. refers to Vedas, Brahmanas, Smrtis, Puranas, and quotes many opinions of individual authors either by their special mention or generally by words like ‘iti eke’, ‘athapyudaharanti’ ‘iti upadiganti’ etc,”
The Chronology of the Smritis
Apasatambas views on Inheritance
Surabhi Sheth · Sambodhi, 1973
“according to .Apastamba, all the sons who are vntuous 14 inherit the property, and those who are unrighteous will be disinherited, even though the eldest son may be among them.”
Apastamba and Gautama
Batakrishna Ghosh · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1927
“Biihler (S.B.E. 2, intro.) declared that Gautama 15 the oldest Dharmasiitra now extant and Jolly in his “Recht und Sitte® has accepted this theory (9. 6). 1 differ on this peint and will try to show that excepting the dubious evidence of the Carapavyiiha there is nothing to prove that Gautama 15 older than Apastamba ; all probabili- ties on the contrary seem to indicate rather just the opposite—that Apastamba is older than Gautama,”
A Study of the Prajapatya form of Marriage
Salihotra
Girindranath Mukherji · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1925
The Authority of the King in Kautilya's Political Thought
The king’s executive administration in the Dharmasūtras
Upanisad-vrata
Umesh Chandra Bhattacharya · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1928