Kātyāyana · Atlas

in the texts

Legal authority cited for the rule requiring a husband's consent for a wife's vows.

This is from the statement of Kātyāyana.

> A wife should always perform vows, etc.

And this Upākarma should not be performed in an intercalary month (*malamāsa*).

The named author/authority of this legal treatise, cited within it as the source of a specific rule on pledge documents.

When something unspecified and something specified are written in one document, the specifically written one is stronger;

Partition is prescribed for those who have reached the age of legal competence.

When fathers and brothers take the entire mass of property in equal shares, that is called a righteous partition.

Legal authority/author whose statement on the relative strength of documents is cited.

What is unspecified and what is specified in one place and particularized, what is written with particulars is stronger, thus Kātyāyana has said.

Sage listed among composers of dharma texts.

And also those composed by Kātyāyana, and likewise those from the sage Pracetas.