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: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)If the Manusmrti is indeed the oldest versified dharmasastra and if we accept, with the majority of scholars, that it was composed between 200 bce and 200 ce (the time when the Mahabharata was about to reach its final form).
If the Manusmrti is indeed the oldest versified dharmasastra and if we accept, with the majority of scholars, that it was composed between 200 bce and 200 ce (the time when the Mahabharata was about to reach its final form).