[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) › v3.c44.55 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c44.55 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c44.55 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c44.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c44.55) ²⁰⁹⁶ Vide \*Queen Empress v Tippa\*, 16 Bom. 737; \*Reg. v. Jaili Bhavin\* 6 Bom. H. C. R. 60 (\*Crown Cases\*) for convictions for dedication of minor girls to temple-service and marrying them to an idol; also 1 Mad. 164, 15 Mad. 41 and 75. The Marathi word '\*bhāvin\*' is derived from \*bhāvinī\* (a woman having \*bhāva\*) and \*bhāva\* in the language of Sanskrit rhetoric means 'love of god' (ratir-devādi-viṣayā ... ... bhāva iti proktaḥ' Kāvyaprakāśa IV. 35). Vide Enthoven's 'Tribes and castes of Bombay' vol. I. pp. 145-147 for information about \*Bhāvins\*. - [Previous: v3.c44.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c44.54) - [Next: v3.c44.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c44.56) - [Up: v3.c44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c44) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kāvyaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.kavyaprakasa) — Mammaṭa & Alaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c44.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c44.55) · Pramāṇa