Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.436

c7.436

ings in Burma in the 10. or the 11. century¹. Only the later Indian Smrtis like Nār. are purely juridical works like the Dhammasats and it is quite possible that a law-book of this sort was shaped in a Buddhist form already at an early period by the Buddhists of Southern India and was then transferred to the Talaings on the opposite coast whose oldest epigraphical alphabet is identical with the South Indian Vengi alphabet of the fourth century A.D.²