A Code of Gentoo laws
Subtitle: or, Ordinations of the pundits.
By: From a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit language.
Contributors: Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey, 1751-1830, tr.
Published: 1781
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; per; san
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Hindu law.; Customary law -- India.
Other titles: Vivādārṇavsētu.; Gentoo law, A code of.; Gentoo law.
Notes: Translated from the Vivādārnavasetu, a digest of Hindu law in 21 sections (taraṅga) compiled for Warren Hastings by the pandits: Bāneśvara, Kṛipārāma, Rāma Gopāla, Kṛishnajw̄ana, Vireśvara, Kṛ̇ishṇacāndra, Gaurīkānta, Kāliśaṅkara, Syāmasundara, Kṛishnakeśava, and Sītārāma. cf. Eggeling, Cat. of Sanskit mss. in the Library of the India office, pt. III, 1891, p. 458, no. 1506. The English translation by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed.
"Names of the Bramins, who compiled this work": p. ixxvi.
"Glossary of such Shànscrit, Persian, and Bengal words, as occur in this work": p. ixxvii-ixxxvii.
"Names of authors, quoted in this compilation": p. ixxix.
"A list of books from whence this pootee was compiled ...": p. xc-xci.