[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) › v4.c63.438 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.438 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.438 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c63.438](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.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. - [Previous: v4.c63.437](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.437) - [Next: v4.c63.439](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.439) - [Up: v4.c63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.438](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.438) · Pramāṇa