Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.380

c7.380

The 17. century which we enter upon herewith, presents to us first of all the representatives of the family of Rāmeśvara of Benares. Nīlakaṇṭha,⁴ a son of Śaṃkara, already referred to, wrote his chief work Bhagavantabhāskara divided into 12 beams (Mayukhas), published in Bombay and Benares, in honour and at the request of the Rajput prince Bhagavantadeva of the family of the Sengaras of Bhareha (Bhareh) at the confluence of the Jumna and the Chambal in the N. W. Provinces, which still belongs to this Rajput family. The portion dealing with law and law-court which is called the Vyavahāramayūkha, already separately published several times and translated by Borradaile and recently by Mandlik,⁵ appears to follow the Madanaratna in particular; in the theory of adoption the author follows the views of his venerable father (tātacaraṇaḥ p. 40 ed. Mandlik) laid down in the Dvaitanirṇaya (see above). The Dvaitanirṇayasiddhāntasaṃgraha⁶ written by Bhānu, a son of Nīlakaṇṭha, is a sketch of the latter work. A brother of this author who was a namesake of his grandfather Bhaṭṭaśaṃkara, wrote in 1671 among other works on Dharma the Kuṇḍodyota-