Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.388

c7.388

A son of the above mentioned Rāmakṛṣṇa named Kamalākara, who was also a cousin of Nīlakaṇṭha, was enormously productive³. His comprehensive work *Nirṇayasindhu*, written in 1611-12 and published several times, is considered even to this day to be the highest authority on questions of religious ceremonies in the Mahratta country. His *Śūdradharmatattva*, in short *Śūdrakamalākara*, which likewise has been published, forms a part of his great *Dharmatattva*. His *Vivādatāṇḍava* is a valuable treatise on law proper following the *Mit.* and polemising against the Bengal school. His brother Dinakara⁴ wrote along with other works the *Karmavipākasāra* of which work we have a Ms. copied in the years 1639, and the *Dinakaroddyota* divided into a series of *Uddyotas* like the *Madanaratna*. A Ms. of the *Vyavahāroddyota* of this work is with me. This elaborate treatise on law proper chiefly based on the *Mit.* contains the statement found also in other parts of the work that it was completed by the son of the author Viśveśvara or Gāgā, who was a contemporary of Aurungzebe.