History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.426

v4.c63.426

For an informing article on divyas reference may be made to Dr. Dines Chandra Sirkar's 'The successors⁵⁹³ of the Śātavāhanas' Appendix pp. 354-376 (Calcutta, 1939). He quotes therein a passage from the 'Asiatic Researches' vol. 1, from which it appears that a magistrate named Ali Ibrahim Khan at Benares tried by *phāla divya* two cases in 1783 A. D. and reported them to the then Governor-General, Warren Hastings. In the '**Tṛtīya-sammelana-vṛtta**' (pp. 18-26) and in the Caturthasammelana-vṛtta pp. 100-154 of the Bhārata-itihāsa-saṁśodhaka-maṇḍala at Poona (both in Marathi) Mr. Bhaskar Vaman Bhat contributes two thoughtful and scholary papers on the administration of Justice in the times of the Marathas in which the part played by ordeals is described at some length.