Nārada

Having taken to heart the entire meaning declared by the sages Hārīta, Gobhila, Parāśara, Nārada, and others, the jewel among scholars, Mitra Miśra, at the behest of the glorious King Vīrasiṃha, composes the *Samayaprakāśa* (The Illumination of Time).

And Pañcamī should be performed when conjoined with Ṣaṣṭhī, O Nārada!

This is from Nārada.

"The virtues you have enumerated are many and rare, O sage.

Duly honored by him, the divine seer Nārada, taking leave and receiving permission, departed through the sky.

Having heard these words of Vālmīki, Nārada — who has knowledge of the three worlds — addressed him saying "Hear me!

looking upon fire he sinks down — he who covets the rightful wealth of a brāhmaṇa, O Nārada.

There are truly three kinds of vaśā:

she is the most thoroughly vaśā among all vaśā cows.

A still later treatise, Narada, is almost wholly a simple law-book, and one of a very interesting kind.

If the sample of this branch of Hindu literature first translated into a Western language had been Narada, it would have been regarded as a law-book of a familiar type, and the traces of sacerdotal influence which are to be found in it would probably have been neglected.

66), but Narada, a still more recent authority, almost pervaded by the modern spirit, takes it as a matter of course.

legal procedure on witnesses;

When Dharma was lost among men, legal procedure was introduced;

The essence of legal procedures is said to be the formal claim.

even a king does homage to these dice.

The gambler's abandoned wife burns with grief;

let another now be in the thrall of the tawny dice.