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].

[London] : [publisher not identified], [1776]

lxxiv, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves, 322 pages, viii plate (facsims.) ; (4to)

Vivādārṇavasetu

ESTC T112179

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

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