In the beginning, it assumed the form of theVedas. It is from this that all activities emerge. Whatever scriptures there are, other than this, which are in vogue in this world, the intelligent man does not revel in them; only the heretic, though he is learned, takes delight in them.^ But what has been or stated in Smrtis by the sages of old should be followed by those who fully understand the meaning of the Vedas. 31-32a. That (which has been stated in the Smrti texts) should be regarded as the highest form of righteousness and not ■what is contained in other scriptures. (As the Smrti writers were great experts in the interpretation of the Vedas.) The law codes