Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.14

c8.14

of Bengal the theory that "ownership is temporal"—*svatvam laukikam*—is represented already in the Mitākṣarā, then in the Smṛticandrikā, in the Viramitrodaya, Vyavahāra-mayūkha, Sarasvativilāsa and other works of the south and the west. The last named South Indian work goes perhaps farthest in this direction, inasmuch as it asserts that ownership is originated only by worldly acts while the Mitākṣarā emphasises only the worldly effects of ownership.¹