Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s2.8
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s2.8
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The debates on property laws with reference to ancient texts on Dharmaśāstra continued and also led to creation of new texts. Raja Rammohun Roy wrote his “Essay on the Rights of Hindoos over Ancestral Property”.¹⁷ William Jones started translating *Vivādabhaṅgārṇavasetu* under the title *A Digest of Hindu Law* which was completed by H.T. Colebrooke after his death and printed from Calcutta in 1798. The whole text is based on the commentary of Jagannātha Pañcānana, “the most widely respected Hindu jurist in eastern India during the late eighteenth century”.¹⁸ Distilling rules from the Dharmaśāstra a number of other texts were brought out.¹⁹