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∗ These are chap. VII of the Manusamhitā and the first two parts (especially chaps. LVI—CLXXIII) of the twelfth book (called the Śāntiparvan) of the Mahābhārata. The latter chapters, besides being greater in bulk and more comprehensive than the former, are distinguished by their dramatic character inasmuch as they take the form of a series of addresses delivered to king Yudhiṣṭhira by the dying Kṣattriya hero Bhīṣma, the *doyen* of the royal house of Kuru.