A code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits : from a Persian translation, made from the original written in the Shanscrit language.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey, 1751-1830.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Vivādārnavasētu. English

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Hindu law--Digests.

Customary law (Hindu law).

Customary law--India--Digests.

Customary law.

Hindu law.

India.

Genre:

Digests.

Law digests.

Physical Description:

lxxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 61 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 322 pages, 8 leaves of plates : facsimiles ; 28 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Code of Gentoo laws

Ordinations of the pundits

Place of Publication:

London : [publisher not identified], printed in the year MDCCLXXVI [1776]

Notes:

Translated from the Vivādārṇavasetu, a digest of Hindu law in 21 sections (taraṅga) compiled for Warren Hastings by the pandits: Bāneśvara, Kṙipārāma, Rāma Gopāla, Krishajw̄ana, Vireśvara, Krishṇacandra, Gavrikānta, Kāliśaṅkara, Syāmasundara, Krishnakeśava and Sĭtărāma. 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]² B-T², ²[A]² B-5D².

"Names of the Brahmins who compiled this work": p. 6.

"Glossary of such Shàscrit [sic], Persian and Bengal words, as occur in this work": p. 7-23.

"Names of authors quoted in this compilation": p. 25.

"A list of the books from whence this pootee was compiled ... ": p. 26-28.

Dedication by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed to Warren Hastings.

Cited in:

ESTC T112179

OCLC:

4336296