20. Gārgya
Volume I: Part I
A sūtra work of Gārgya on dharma existed - Gārgya and Vṛddha Gārgya - a Gārgīsamhitā on astronomy and astrology - Jyotir Gārgya and Bṛhad Gārgya - Garga, an astronomer mention- ed in Anuśāsana and Śalya probably different from the Dharma- śāstra writer Garga - Vṛddha-Gārgya.
— Synopsis by P.V. Kane, from History of Dharmaśāstra
20. Gārgya
20. Gārgya
Viśvarūpa (on Yāj. I. 4-5) quotes a verse of Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya in which Gārgya is enumerated among the expounders of Dharma ( dharmavaktāraḥ ). He quotes two sūtras, one from Gārgya (on Yāj. I. 721) and the other from Vṛddha-Gārgya2 (on Yāj. I. 195 ). Therefore it seems that a sūtra work of Gārgya on dharma did exist. The Mit. (e. g. on Yāj. III. 326 ), Aparārka and the Smṛticandrikā quote several verses of Gārgya on āhnika, śrāddha and prāyaścitta. Parā- śara (I. 13) mentions Gārgya among writers on dharma. Apa- rārka contains (pp. 124, 190, 368, 544) verses from Gārgya on topics of dharma. It seems that the two writers are identical. Aparārka also quotes several verses from Gārgya of astronomical import (e. g. p. 547 on the nomenclature of the months as Caitra in connection with the signs of the zodiac). This was probably an independent work. Fragments of a Gārgī saṃhitā on astronomy and astrology have been recovered and it contains valuable historical information ( vide Kern's pre- face to Bṛhat-saṃhitā pp. 33-40 and Mr. Jayasval in JBORS. vol. 14, p. 397 ff ). A Jyotir-Gārgya and a Bṛhad-Gārgya are quoted in the Smṛticandrikā. The Nityācārapradīpa (p. 20, B.I.S.) mentions Garga and Gārgya separately as smṛtikāraṣ