Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.339

c7.339

The 14. century is the blooming period of the school of Mithilā, highly important for the development of jurisprudence proper; it might have been connected with the tradition existing in this country from the time of Y. (§6). Caṇḍeśvara is the author of the Smṛtiratnākara²,—an extensive digest divided into 7 parts on Kṛtya, Dāna, Vyavahāra, Śuddhi, Pūjā, Vivāda and Gṛhastha, and of the shorter and purely religious work Kṛtyacintāmaṇi. According to the introductions to his works, Caṇḍeśvara was the son of a minister and was himself a minister (mantrin) of the king Harasimhadeva (see above), conquered Nepal for his master (according to other sources, in the year 1324) and on the banks of the river Vāgvatī (rising in Nepal) he gave away in charity his own weight of gold. As this meritorious act is dated in the year 1314, the composition of our work took place a little later. Hitherto only the Vivādaratnākara has been published in the Bibl. Ind.—an elaborate exposition of the 18 titles of law containing a great wealth of quotations.³