Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.396

c7.396

Mitramiśra, already mentioned in §11, descends from another family but was likewise a native of Northern India; the portion of his Vīramitrodaya³ dealing with Vyavahāra has been published several times and the section of this portion dealing with the law of inheritance has been edited and translated by G. Sarkar. In the law of inheritance Mitramiśra closely follows the Mit., on which he has even written a commentary and combats the theories of Jīmūtavāhana and other jurists of Bengal. His patron, the Bundela Vīrasimha, after whom the Vīramitrodaya has been named, murdered the famous Abul Fazl in 1602 and lived till the reign of Shah Jehan (1628-58). It is important for the purpose of fixing the date of Mitramiśra that a work dedicated to the younger son of Vīrasimha was written in 1635.