A code of Gentoo laws, or, ordinations of the pundits / from a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit language [by N.B. Halhed].
- Date:
- [1776]
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Publication/Creation
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1776]
Physical description
lxxiv, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves, 322 pages, viii plate (facsims.) ; (4to)
Related material
Vivādārṇavasetu
Notes
Translated from the Vivadārnavasetu, a digest of Hindu law in 21 sections (taraṅga), complied, for Warren Hastings, by the pandits: Bāṇeśvara, Kṛipārāma, Rāma Gopāla, Kṛishṇajwāna, Vīreśvara, Kṛĭshṇacandra. Gaurīkānta, Kālīś aṅkara, Syāmasundara, Kṛishṇakeśava and Sītarāma. 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
'Names of authors quoted in this compilation": p. 25
"Glossary of such Shānscrit, Persian, and Bengal words, as occur in this work": p. 7-23
"Names of the Bramins who complied this work": p. 6
Bibliographic information
"A list of the books from which this pootee was compiled": p. 26-28.
References note
ESTC T112179
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