Mānavadharmaśāstra Manu
Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 418
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Excerpt from Institutes of Hindu Law, or the Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss of Culluca: Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil; Verbally Translated From the Original Sanscrit IT is amaxim in the fcience of legillation and government, that Law: are of no avail Mbout manners, or, to explain the fentence more fully, that the heft intended legiflative provifions would have no beneficial effeet even at firfi, and none at all In a lhort courfe of. Time, unlefs they were congenial to the difpo. Fition and habits, to the religious prejudices, and approved immemorial ufagcs of the peo ple for whom they were enafied, efpeciall if that people univerfally and fincerely believedy that all their ancient ufages and efiablifhed rules of condufi had the fanc'lion of an ac'lual revela tion from heaven: the legiflature of Brzlaz'rt having (hown, In compliance with this maxim, an intention to leave the natives of thefe Indian provinces in pofl'efiion of their own Laws, at lcafl on the titles of contrafls and inberilancer, we may humbly prefume, that all future pro vilions, for the adminifiration of jufiice and government in India, will be conformable, as far as the natives are affeeted by them, to the manners and opinions of the natives themfelves; an objeet which cannot pofiibly be attained, until thofe manners and Opinions can be fully and accurately known. Thefe confiderations, and a few others more immediately within my A 2 Pro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.