According to Baudhayana daughters could inherit only the ornaments of their mother, presented according to tile custom or anything else.69 In Baudhayana’s law no severe punishment is ordained for a woman; for, as he deprives them of independence and ordains them always to be under the close watch of their natural guardians, men are, held responsible for any Sin committed by them. So lie says, wives of men of all castes must be guarded more carefully than Wealth.70 Whereas, of the other hand, any wrong done to women is severely punishable.71

Next in importance and antiquity to Baudhayana in the Black Vajur Vedic school is Apastamba, whose centre has been determined by scholars to be in Southern India, His Dharma-Sutra, forms a part of his more comprehensive work the Kalpa-Sutra. The book, as it has been traditionally handed down to us, comes next to the Grhya-Sutra and is followed by the Sulva-Sutra. This position of the book makes it clear that it originally formed an integral part of the Kalpa-Sutra and that it is not a later addition.