Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.258

c7.258

Vyāsa, of whom over 200 juridical texts have been quoted, deals particularly in details with judicial procedure and agrees in many cases with Nār., Br̥h. and Kāty. Thus he gives the etymology of the word Prāḍvivāka, mentions even the accountant and the scribe among the assessors of the law-court, speaks of registering the plaint on the floor, discusses in details the composition and examination of royal grants and other documents, mentions the four modes of answer and eight kinds of judgment and deals with occupation and usucaption in the same manner as Br̥h. and Kāty. (1, 5, 8 f., 21-26, 34-72)⁵. In the law of debt he refers to 7 kinds of suretyship, i. e. 2 more than Kāty., 3 more than Bṛh. and 4 more than Nār. (2,12). A striking sign of the modern origin of the Vyāsa-smṛti is the glorification of Satī, which Vyāsa recommends and facilitates in every way (12, 3—10).