History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.438

v4.c63.438

The Mit. (on Yāj II. 91), and V. Mātṛkā p. 309 note that a jayapatra is given specially to prevent the same matter being agitated again, while a document given where a party is hīnavādī (i. e. a *hīnapatraka*) serves the purpose of making that party liable later on to pay a fine. When a dispute was decided by a domestic tribunal (*kula* &c.) there was no jayapatra but only a *nirṇaya-patra* (*kulādibhir nirṇaye jayapatrābhāvān-nirṇaya-ptram tatra kāryaṃ puruttapatramiti yāvat*, as the Vy. Nirṇaya p. 85 says). It would be better to adopt the reading '*vṛttapatram*' as given by one Ms.