The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c35.s5.11

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For a general survey of the subject: R. C. Dutt, History of civilization in Ancient India (revised edn. London, 1893); Mrs Manning, Ancient and mediaeval India (London, 1869); J. W. M'Crindle, Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian (Bombay, 1877); idem, by Ktesias (1882); idem, by Ptolemy (1885); Antiquities of India by L. D. Barnett (London, 1913); Ancient India by E. J. Rapson (Cambridge, 1914); Colebrooke's Essays (Life and Essays of H. T. Colebrooke, new edn. by E. B. Cowell, London, 1873) contain papers on Hindu Courts of Justice and Preface to the Digest, which are still valuable. West and Bühler's Digest of Hindu Law (Bombay, 1867–9) contains many extracts from later law-books. The best general review of Hindu law (Sūtras and Çāstras) is found in Julius Jolly's Recht und Sitte (1896). For the religious life of this epoch compare M. Monier-Williams, Religious Thought and Life in India (4th edn. London, 1891) and Indian Wisdom (1893). J. Muir's Original Sanskrit Texts (London, 1868–84) give copious extracts from the religious chapters of the epics.