Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.374

c7.374

The second family likewise comes from the South, but was however settled in Benares for six generations when its famous member Nandapaṇḍita was born whose Vaijayantī, written in 1622, has already been discussed in §11. His poetical work of this author bears the date 1598-99. His Dattakamīmāṃsā on adoption, already published many times and translated by Sutherland is the best known of all his works. To the 16. century belong also Acala's Nirṇayadīpaka³ written in 1518 on religious usages, the Jaṭamallavilāsa¹, written in the North-West before 1600, perhaps even in the 15. century, the Nirṇayāmṛta, written at the instance of a prince of the well-known family of the Cahamānas of Ekacakrā on the Jumna, which however not being the only work of this name is hard to fix². Also the Samayāloka of Padmanābha³ and other works belong to this century.