The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s4.9

v3.c29.s4.9

To Wareru we owe the earliest law book in Burma that now survives. The Hindu colonists who came to the Delta a thousand years before had brought with them traditional laws ascribed to the ancient sage Manu; these law books were handed down in the Talaing monasteries, and Wareru commissioned his monks to produce the standard collection called after him, the Wareru *dhammathat*. It forms the basis of Burmese law literature¹.