Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.398

c7.398

Other works of the 17. century are the two digests Smṛtimuktāphala of Vaidyanātha (c. 1600) based on the Smṛticandrikā and divided like it into Kāṇḍas on Vyavahāra, Śrāddha, etc.,⁴ and the Vyavahāranirṇaya of Varadarāja, a Tamil of the end of the 16. or the beginning of the 17. century, of which the chapter on the law of inheritance has been translated by Burnell¹. Both of these works were written in South India and have been described by Burnell. We have also the little work Gotrapravaranirṇaya of c. 1620, a register of Gotras, by Raghunātha²; the religious calendar Kālatattvavivecana also written in 1620 by Raghunātha, the grandfather of Rāmacandra, referred to above³; the Vidhānapārijāta, an elaborate work of the year 1625 by Ananta⁴, dealing also with law proper; the Rāmaprakāśa⁵, a comprehensive digest of religious usages, composed under the auspices of Kṛpārāma, a contemporary of Jehangir (Jahāngīra, 1605-1628) and Shah Jehan (Sahajahām, 1628-58); Raghunāthasūri's hand-book of religious usages—Prayogatattva⁶ written in 1655; the Tithinirṇaya, Kalanirṇaya and other religious works of Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita specially known as the author of the Siddhāntakaumudī, who should be assigned to the first half of this century and who was known as a teacher about 1620⁷; Raghunātha's Smārtavyavasthārṇva of 1661 also dealing with the law of inheritance⁸; the partly published Smṛtikaustubha (also dealing with law proper) of Anantadeva, whose patron Bāz Bahādur Candra is identical with a king of Kumaon assignable to 1644-64⁹; the sacrificial calendar Parvanirṇaya of the year 1685 by Gaṇapati Rāvala¹⁰, etc.