Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte)
Sources of Hindu law (dharmasūtras, smṛtis, commentaries) and their dates; marriage, family, inheritance, contracts, crimes, procedure, ordeals, penance, customs.
- Language
- English
- Date
- 1849–1932 CE
- Authors
- Julius Jolly, Batakrishna Ghosh
- Extent
- 1,497 passages, 108,993 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · English tr. by B. Ghosh, Calcutta: Greater India Society 1928 (German original in Grundriss der indo-arischen… · In copyright (Julius Jolly †1932; Batakrishna Ghosh); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 3 parts
- c2 Hindu Law and Custom — 6 parts
- c3 Introductory Note — 8 parts
- c4 Foreword — 5 parts
- c5 Contents — 6 parts
- c6 Abbreviations — 2 parts
- c7 I. The Sources — 859 parts
- c8 III. Law of Property and Contract — 236 parts
- c9 IV. Crime, Penance and Punishment — 116 parts
- c10 V. Judicial Procedure — 144 parts
- c11 VI. Customs and Usages — 68 parts
- c12 Sanskrit Index — 15 parts
- c13 Errata — 29 parts