Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law

Volume One: Dharmasastra and Related Ideas

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1976
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Preface
Abbreviations
Hindu Empires
Bhū-Bharaṇa, Bhū-Pālana, Bhū-Bhojana: An Indian Conundrum
Rulers and Ruled in India
Vyavahāra: Light on a Vanished Controversy from an Unpublished Fragment
Two Inscriptions Concerning the Status of Kammalas and the Application of Dharmasastra
Modes of SannyāSīs and the Reform of a South Indian Maṭha Carried Out in 1584
A Newly-discovered Contact between Arthaśāstra and Dharmaśāstra: the Role of Bhāruci
“Quid Possit Antiquitas Nostris Legibus Abrogare” The Role of the Jurist in Ancient Indian Law
A Jurist and his Sources: Medhātithi’s Use of Bhāruci
The Concept of Law According to Medhātithi, a Pre-Islamic Indian Jurist
The Relative Antiquity of the Mitāksharā and the Dāyabhāga.
Showing a Big Bull: A Piece of Hypocrisy in the Mitākṣarā?
A Strange Rule of Smṛti, and a Suggested Solution
Suretyship in India: The Classical Law and its Aftermath
An Example of Tax-Evasion in Medieval India
Prohibition and Nullity: Indian Struggles with a Jurisprudential Lacuna
Kuttā: A Class of Land-Tenures in South India
The Discussion of Marriage by Gadādhara
An Indian Contribution to the Study of Property
The Anonymous Svatva-Vicāra: A Legal Study by a Seventeenth-Century Logician
Svatva Rahasyam: A 17th-Century Contribution to Logic and Law
Back Matter
Index of Indian Cases
Index of Names and Topics
Index of Sanskrit Words
Corrigenda
'This is very important publication...makes easily available the notable and valuable contributions to Indian Law by this well-known and unique, outside India, specialist and Professor of Oriental Laws.'
Ludwick Sternbach, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
'...valuable, informative and well-documented, and moreover excellently prepared...'
Ludwick Sternbach, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1980.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 386 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004643895

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