A Code of Gentoo Laws; or, Ordinations of the Pundits : From a Persian Translation, Made from the Original, Written in the Shanscrit Language /

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the English philologist Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751–1830) was employed in India by the East India Company. There he was asked to translate into English the Hindu legal code, so that the British authorities could better understand native laws. The resu...

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Language:English
Persian
Published: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1776.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Series:Cambridge library collection. Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society.
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519892
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