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A Code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits / from a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit language.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Forrest Collection BL1212.38 .V58 1781
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Vivādārnavasētu. English
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu law.
- Customary law (Hindu law).
- Penn Provenance:
- Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (Donor)
- Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872 (Autograph)
- Physical Description:
- cxx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : [publisher not identified], 1781.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Vivādārṇavasetu, a digest of Hindu law in 21 sections (taraṅga) compiled for Warren Hastings by the paṇḍits: Bāṇeśvara, Kṛipārāma, Rāma Gopāla, Kṛishṇajw̄ana, 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. The English translation by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed.
- Includes bibliographical references (page xc-xci).
- Contains:
- Gentoo laws.
- Ordinations of the pundits.
- OCLC:
- 5965675
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