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    <title>code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits</title>
    <subTitle>from a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit language</subTitle>
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    <title>Ordinations of the pundits</title>
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    <title>Vivādārnavasētu. English</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1751-1830</namePart>
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    <publisher>[s.n.]</publisher>
    <dateIssued>printed in the year 1777</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1777</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>cxx, 285, [3] p., 8 leaves of plates (some folded) : facsims. ; 22 cm. (8vo)</extent>
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  <note>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.</note>
  <note>English translation by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed. Cf. p. [iii].</note>
  <note>Signatures: a-p⁴, A-2N⁴ (last leaf blank).</note>
  <note>"Names of the Brahmins who compiled this work": p. lxxvi.</note>
  <note>"Glossary of such Shānscrit, Persian, and Bengal words, as occur in this work": p. lxxvii-lxxxvii.</note>
  <note>"Names of authors quoted in this compilation": p. lxxxix.</note>
  <note>"A list of the books from which this pootee was compiled": p. xc-xci.</note>
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    <topic>Customary law</topic>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>Digests</topic>
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