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A dharma reader : Classical Indian law / translated and edited by Patrick Olivelle.
Language: English Original language: Sanskrit Series: Historical sourcebooks in classical Indian thoughtPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Description: xii, 410 pages ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9788178244945
- 181.4 OLI 23
- KNS124 .O43 2017
Contents:
Nature and epistemology of law. Early thinkers: Apastamba (late third century B.C.E.), Patanjali (mid-second century B.C.E.) ; Later aphoristic texts on dharma: Gautama (late second century B.C.E.), Baudhayana (early first century B.C.E.), Vasistha (late first century B.C.E.) ; Perspectives from political science: Kautilya (first-second century C.E.) ; Innovations of Manu (mid-second century C.E.) ; Developments after Manu: Yajnavalkya (fourth-fifth century C.E.), Vishnu (seventh century C.E.), Parasara (seventh century C.E.) ; The school of vedic exegesis: Sabara (fifth century C.E.), Kumarila (seventh century C.E.) ; Early commentators: Bharuci (seventh century C.E.), Visvarupa (early ninth century C.E.), Medhatithi (second half of the ninth century C.E.) ; Medieval commentators and systematizers: Commentators of Manu: Govindaraja (eleventh-twelfth century C.E.), Nandana, Kulluka (fourteenth century C.E.); Commentators of Yajnavalkya: Vijnanesvara (fl. 1100-1125 C.E.), Apararka (first half of the twelfth century C.E.); Legal digests-Nibandhas: Devanna Bhatta (circa 1200 C.E.) -- Courts of law and legal procedure. The beginnings: Apastamba, Gautama, Baudhayana, Visistha ; The early theorists: Kautilya, Manu ; The mature phase: Yajnavalkya, Narada (fifth-sixth century C.E.) ; Early commentators: Bharuci, Medhatithi ; Medieval commentators and systematizers: Vijnanesvara, Devanna Bhatta.
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National Law School | MPP Section | 181.4 OLI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 37579 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-404) and index.
Nature and epistemology of law. Early thinkers: Apastamba (late third century B.C.E.), Patanjali (mid-second century B.C.E.) ; Later aphoristic texts on dharma: Gautama (late second century B.C.E.), Baudhayana (early first century B.C.E.), Vasistha (late first century B.C.E.) ; Perspectives from political science: Kautilya (first-second century C.E.) ; Innovations of Manu (mid-second century C.E.) ; Developments after Manu: Yajnavalkya (fourth-fifth century C.E.), Vishnu (seventh century C.E.), Parasara (seventh century C.E.) ; The school of vedic exegesis: Sabara (fifth century C.E.), Kumarila (seventh century C.E.) ; Early commentators: Bharuci (seventh century C.E.), Visvarupa (early ninth century C.E.), Medhatithi (second half of the ninth century C.E.) ; Medieval commentators and systematizers: Commentators of Manu: Govindaraja (eleventh-twelfth century C.E.), Nandana, Kulluka (fourteenth century C.E.); Commentators of Yajnavalkya: Vijnanesvara (fl. 1100-1125 C.E.), Apararka (first half of the twelfth century C.E.); Legal digests-Nibandhas: Devanna Bhatta (circa 1200 C.E.) -- Courts of law and legal procedure. The beginnings: Apastamba, Gautama, Baudhayana, Visistha ; The early theorists: Kautilya, Manu ; The mature phase: Yajnavalkya, Narada (fifth-sixth century C.E.) ; Early commentators: Bharuci, Medhatithi ; Medieval commentators and systematizers: Vijnanesvara, Devanna Bhatta.
Includes translations from Sanskrit.
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