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# Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s2.18

Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s2.18

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### [c6.s2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s2.18)

There is again reference to this concept, of mātsya nyāya in Raghunātha’s Laukika-Nyāya-Saṅgraha (a work attributed to the fifteenth century A.D.). Raghunātha explains this as occurring frequently in the Purāṇa and in the Itihāsa literature and quotes Vasiṣṭha in the course of Prahlādākhyāna.³

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## Cites (3)

- [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit
- [Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) — Sanskrit
- [Laukikanyāyasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.nyaya.other.laukikanyayasamgraha) — Raghunātha Varman 1825, Sanskrit

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