The library of Nārada
Across all 1 work of Nārada’s in the library, the harvest finds 14 named sources — 14 citations in all. The library holds 3 of them; the rest are the corpus’s wanted list. In the other direction, 4 works in the library quote Nārada back — 10 citations.
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Manu 1 citation
Manu Svāyaṃbhuva declared ten places of punishment, which should apply to the three classes;
Nāradasmṛti · chapter 1 · invokes Manu as the authoritative source legitimating specific punishment rules ¶ -
Nārada 1 citation
For the purification of those accused in doubtful matters, the means of distinguishing truth from untruth were again declared by the great-souled Nārada.
Nāradasmṛti · chapter 1 · identifies the text's own self-attribution to Nārada as its authoritative source and closes the work under his name ¶ -
Nāradasmṛti Nārada 1 citation
in the reverse case (with a woman of a lower class), the middle amercement.
Nāradasmṛti · chapter 1 · The entire passage is self-citing, marking each rule as a numbered verse of the Nāradasmṛti itself. ¶
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11 sources · 1 workEach of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.
- Nāradasmṛti
- Arthaśāstra ¶ · Dharmaśāstra ¶ · Ordinance of Prajāpati · narrative of Vasiṣṭha's oath · narrative of the seven sages and Indra · rule attributed to Manu Prajāpati on interest · sacred texts (Dharmaśāstra tradition, unspecified) · sacred texts (smṛti/śāstra tradition) · teaching on giving (fourfold path of gifts) · unspecified sacred texts (śāstra) · Śruti and Smṛti ¶
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10 citations · from 4 works4 works in the library quote Nārada — 10 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.
through Nārada 9 citations · Nāradasmṛti 1 citation
by the citing author
The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Nārada is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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Vīramitrodaya Mitra Miśra 5 citations · 14 passages
Explicitly named ('of Nārada', 'from Nārada', 'statement of Nārada') as source of multiple cited verses.
> Where there is a complete Ekādaśī which extends with an increase into Dvādaśī, the fast should be done on Dvādaśī, and the *pāraṇa* on Trayodaśī.
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Nāradasmṛti Nārada 2 citations · 228 passages
The work explicitly credits Nārada as its authorial voice within the ordeal section and in its closing colophon, functioning as a self-citation of authority
For the purification of those accused in doubtful matters, the means of distinguishing truth from untruth were again declared by the great-souled Nārada.
chapter 1 ¶ -
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Vālmīki 2 citations · 20 passages
Brahmā explicitly directs Vālmīki to base the content of the Rāmāyaṇa on what he heard from Nārada, treating Nārada's account as an authoritative source.
Tell the deeds of the righteous-souled, virtuous, wise, and steadfast Rāma as you heard them from Nārada.
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 endorsed 1 citation
Explicitly praised by the author as extremely modern and morally elevated among the law-books.
The portions of it which deal with Evidence appear to me especially remarkable, not only for the legal doctrine, which (though the writer believes in Ordeals) is on the whole extremely modern, but for the elevation of moral tone displayed in its language on the subject of true and false witness, which should be set off against the unveracity attributed to the modern Hindu.
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