A code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits
Subtitle: from a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit language.
Contributors: Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey, 1751-1830.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1777
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; per; san
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Hindu law.; Customary law (Hindu law); Customary law -- India -- Digests.
Genres: Digests.
Other titles: Code of Gentoo laws; Ordinations of the pundits
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, Kṛishṇajīvana, 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.
English translation by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed. Cf. p. [iii].
Signatures: a-p⁴, A-2N⁴ (last leaf blank).
"Names of the Brahmins who compiled this work": p. lxxvi.
"Glossary of such Shānscrit, Persian, and Bengal words, as occur in this work": p. lxxvii-lxxxvii.
"Names of authors quoted in this compilation": p. lxxxix.
"A list of the books from which this pootee was compiled": p. xc-xci.