History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s83.1

v1.c6.s83.1

Vācaspatimiśra is the foremost *nibandha* writer of Mithilā. His Vivādacintāmaṇi has been recognised by the High Courts in India and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as a work of paramount authority on matters of Hindu Law in Mithilā.⁹⁷² Vācaspati was an extremely voluminous writer and appears to have composed dozens of works. In the Śrāddhakalpa *alias* Pitṛbhaktitaraṅgiṇī, almost his latest work, he says that he wrote in his youth ten works on śāstra and thirty *nibandhas* on smṛti and composed the work in question in his declining years.⁹⁷³ At least eleven works of his bearing the title 'cintāmaṇi' are known. They are briefly noticed below.