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Vyavastha-Chandrika A Digest of Hindu Law

1878

' Elphinstone who is inclined to attribute great antiquity to the institutes of MAxu on thu ground of difference between the laws and manners therein recorded and those of modern times and from the proportion of the changes which took place before the invasion of Aleximder the Great infers that a considerable period had elapsed between the promulgation of the dock ald the latter epoch ; and he [...] Morley the author of the Analytical Digest who in his introduction to the Hindi law has cited the observations of the Sanscrit scholars of Europe makesIthis concluding remark :—" whatever may be the exact period at which the Manasa dharma 'Matra was composed or collected ' it is undoubtedly of very great antiquity and is eminently worthy of the attention of the scholar whether on aeuut of it [...] And since the use of digests the institutes of the sages are not regarded as themselves of final authority which is to be sought in the conclusions and decisions of the authors of the several digests and the commentaries partaking of the nature of digests with reference however to the schools to which. they respectively belong (and which will be presently noticed).*. Even flee institutes o [...] subjects of the company's provinces." And the result of this proposition so gladly accepted by the Governor General in Council was the composition of the Vivdda-edrdrnavar and the Vivdda-bhangarnava : the former was w'ritteu by Sarvort& Trivedi a lawyer Of.71fithild and the latter by Jagan-n.Tarka-panchanana and both by the direction of Sir willitim Jones who liimUlf. had undertaken a [...] The author of the Summary of the Laws and customs of the Hincids remarks :—" The Digest of Jagan-natha translated by Mr.
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Pages
1008
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144301
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Shyama Charan Vidyabhushan view
Preface
i-xxxii unknown view
Vyavastha-Chandrika A Digest of Hindu Law
1-262 unknown view
Part II. Precedents
i-660 unknown view
A Table of the Names of the Cases Contained in Part II of This Volume
i-xii unknown view
Index to the Principles
i-xviii unknown view
Index to the Precedents
xix-xl unknown view

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