Vyavastha-Darpana. A Digest of Hindu Law as Current in Bengal

Elphinstone Who is inclined to attribute great antiquity to the institutes of MANU on the 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 Alexander the Great infers that a considerable period had elapsed between the promulgation of the code and the latter epoch ; and be fi [...] 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 the institutes of MANu the foundation of the body of Hindu law are in modern times looked upon [...] In the first of the above two cases the Bengal authorities are regarded as secondary to or corroborative of the authorties of those schools while in the second case the authorities of the Bengal school must be regarded as also unquestionable authorities in the said schools by reason of having supplied the deficiency in the law tracts adopted by him. [...] One of the grounds of such attribution is that by putting together consecutively the first letter of the first and third lines and the last letter of the second and fourth lines of the last verse of the book the name ' Ragltu-mane is formed."PREFACE. [...] Borradaile. a Judge of the Sudder De wanny Adawlut of Bombay and the author of the vnluable Reports has published a tranlation of the ryavandra-maydkha to which he has affixed annotations referring the passages of other works on Hindu Law and rendering his version of peculiar utility to the student of the law of that side of India.