The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c7.19

v1.c7.19

| The chief codes—Manu, Vishṇu, Yājñavalkya, and Nārada . . . | 277-9 |
| Growth of the distinction between religious precepts and law . . . | 280 |
| Growth of the distinction between civil and criminal law, and the first enumeration of legal titles . . . . . . . | 281 |
| Ordeals . . . . . . . . . . | 282 |
| *Dharna* . . . . . . . . . . | 284 |
| Punishments . . . . . . . . . | 284 |
| Development of civil law . . . . . . . . | 286 |
| Interest; wages; property . . . . . . . . | 287 |
| The king as ruler in peace and war . . . . . . | 288 |
| The king as judge . . . . . . . . . | 290 |
| Hereditary traditional law and custom . . . . . . | 291 |
| Infant marriage; the levirate; the status of women . . . . | 292 |
| The law-books and the Arthaçāstra . . . . . . . | 293-4 |