[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v1.c4.18 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c4.18 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c4.18 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c4.18) Sec. 44 pp. 226-227 \*Pitāmaha.\* Dr. Karl Scriba collected together from several \*nibandhas\* about 200 verses of Pitāmaha and published them with translation (Die Fragmente des Pitāmaha, Leipzig, 1902) on the eight constituents of karaṇa (i. e. the court of justice), fifty \*chalas\*, twenty-two wrongs (in which king acted \*suo motu\*), ordeals (162 verses) and the four kinds of ascetics. - [Previous: v1.c4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c4.17) - [Next: v1.c4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c4.19) - [Up: v1.c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c4.18) · Pramāṇa