Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.431

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native element exercised a strong influence on the legal literature; the verdicts given in law-suits by Buddhist priests composed in view of Buddhist morals—the Pyattons, were incorporated into the Dhammasats and at the same time the religious practices of the Brahmanical colonies and the laws of the order of the Buddhist monasteries in Burma were taken into consideration as well as the canonical literature of the Buddhists. Thus in the third period of the Burmese law, there arose at the instance of the powerful King Alompra, the Manu Kyay composed by his war-minister in Burmese in 1756—the extensive law-book translated by Richardson.¹