A code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits : from a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit language.
by Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey.
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BookPublisher: London : [s.n.], printed in the year 1777Description: cxx, 285, [3] p., 8 leaves of plates (some folded) : facsims. ; 22 cm. (8vo).Other title: Code of Gentoo laws; Ordinations of the pundits.Uniform titles: Vivādārnavasētu. English.Subject(s): Hindu law | Customary law (Hindu law) | Customary law -- India -- Digests
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Translated from the Vivādārṇavasetu, a digest of Hindu law in 21 sections (taraṅga) compiled for Warren Hastings by the paṇḍits: Bāṇeśvara, Kṛipārāma, Rāma Gopāla, Kṛishṇajīvana, Vīreśvara, Kṛīshṇacandra, Guarīkānta, Kālīśaṅkaṙa, Ṡyāmasundara, Kṛishṇakeśava and Sītārāma. cf. Eggeling. Cat. of Sanskrit mss. in Library of the India office, pt. III, 1891, p. 458, no. 1506.
English translation by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed. Cf. p. [iii].
Signatures: a-p⁴, A-2N⁴ (last leaf blank).
"Names of the Brahmins who compiled this work": p. lxxvi.
"Glossary of such Shānscrit, Persian, and Bengal words, as occur in this work": p. lxxvii-lxxxvii.
"Names of authors quoted in this compilation": p. lxxxix.
"A list of the books from which this pootee was compiled": p. xc-xci.
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