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Manu (Lawgiver)

Cox and Baylis, 1825 - Hindu law

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And since the minutest particles of visible	17

II	19

of men performed very difficult religious duties	25

ginning	32

MARICHI ATRI ANGIRAS PULASTYA PULAha	35

Lightnings and thunderbolts clouds and	38

Birds are hatched from eggs so are snakes	44

All vegetables propagated by seed or by slips	46

receptacle of waters	131

gains he is deprived successively of one foot	134

V	144

several degrees together with the duties of every	164

VI	169

existing substantially though unperceived by sense	187

On Government or on the Military Class	215

On Judicature and on Law Private and Criminal	222

III	59

crocodiles fish without shells and tortoises with other	71

At the close of his night having long	74

In the Crita age the Genius of truth and right	81

In the Crita the prevailing virtue is declared	86

Man is declared purer above the navel	92

IV	104

learned those who know their duty of those	117

On the Commercial and Servile Classes	287

elements and other principles of nature appeared with	312

power	333

X	337

all beings whom no being can comprehend shone	352

XI	361

On Transmigration and final Beatitude	406

Common terms and phrases

ablution acts amercement ancestors anchorets animals Asuras attain bathe beatitude begotten BHRIGU birth body born Bráh BRAHMA Bráhmen brother called cattle ceremony CHAP child clarified butter considered constantly creatures Cshatriya damsel daughter death declared deities Dévas divine duties earth eaten elephantiasis equal exalted expiation father flesh flesh-meat fruit Gandharvas gift giver gods grain guest holy fire holy texts honour house-keeper hundred panas husband impure INDRA kinsmen learned let the king live lord manes marriage married MENU mother night nuptial oblations to fire obsequies offence offering ordained paternal penance perform person Pitris preceptor priest publick punishment pure purified read the Véda receive religious rice rites roots rule sacerdotal sacraments sacred sacrifice sages scripture servile class spirits sráddha subsistence Súdra thing tion triliteral twice-born Upanishads Vaisya VARUNA Veda VIII virtue virtuous wealth whole wife woman women YAMA

Bibliographic information

Title	English translation Volume 2 of Mānava-dherma-sāstra: Or, the Institutes of Menu, Graves Champney Haughton
Author	Manu (Lawgiver)
Editor	Graves Champney Haughton
Translated by	William Jones
Publisher	Cox and Baylis, 1825
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	24 Apr 2013

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