Manu's Code of LawManu's Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical civilization. It paints an astoundingly detailed picture of ancient Indian life-covering everything from the constitution of the king's cabinet to the price of a ferry trip for a pregnant woman-and its doctrines have been central to Indian thought and practice for 2000 years. Despite its importance, however, until now no one has produced a critical edition of this text. As a result, for centuries scholars have been forced to accept clearly inferior editions of Sanskrit texts and to use those unreliable editions as the basis for constructing the history of classical India. In this volume, Patrick Olivelle has assembled the critical text of Manu, including a critical apparatus containing all the significant manuscript variants, along with a reliable and readable translation, copious explanatory notes, and a comprehensive introduction on the structure, content, and socio-political context of the treatise. The result is an outstanding scholarly achievement that will be an essential tool for any serious student of India. |
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Contents
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Chapter 3 | 108 |
Chapter 4 | 124 |
Chapter 5 | 138 |
Chapter 6 | 148 |
Chapter 4 | 493 |
Chapter 5 | 558 |
Chapter 6 | 594 |
613 | 668 |
Chapter 9 | 746 |
Chapter 10 | 810 |
Chapter 11 | 837 |
Chapter 12 | 889 |
Chapter 7 | 154 |
Chapter 8 | 167 |
Chapter 9 | 190 |
Chapter 10 | 208 |
Chapter 11 | 215 |
Chapter 12 | 230 |
Notes to the Translation | 237 |
Introduction to the Critical Edition | 353 |
Chapter 1 | 383 |
Chapter 2 | 403 |
Chapter 3 | 447 |
Notes to the Critical Edition | 914 |
Appendices | 983 |
Fauna and Flora | 985 |
Names of Gods People and Places | 988 |
Ritual Vocabulary | 993 |
Weights Measures and Currency | 997 |
Bibliography | 999 |
Dharmasastric Parallels | 1009 |
Pada Index | 1035 |
Index to the Translation | 1112 |
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Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the M-anava-Dharma ... Patrick Olivelle No preview available - 2004 |
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Popular passages
Page 261 - Ootra is the latest ancestor or one of the latest ancestors of a person by whose name his family has been known for generations ; while pravara is constituted by the sage or sages who lived in the remotest past, who were most illustrious and who are generally the ancestors of the gotra sages or in some cases the remotest ancestor alone".
Page 152 - In childhood a woman should be under her father's control, in youth under her husband's, and when her husband is dead, under her sons'.
Page 246 - Mercury, inventor of arts and sciences; represented as having the body of a man and the head of a lamb or ibis.
Page 290 - This is the name for those who are (held to be) wicked men, and live apart from others. When they enter the gate of a city or a market-place, they strike a piece of wood to make themselves known, so that men (47) Fa Ilian, Cap. 16, Legge's translation, 1886. know and avoid them, and do not come into contact with them. In that country they do not keep pigs and fowls, and do not sell live cattle ; in the markets there are no butchers' shops and no dealers in intoxicating drinks.
Page 152 - The husband who wedded her with sacred texts, always gives happiness to his wife, both in season and out of season, in this world and in the next.
Page 114 - A wise man must not marry a girl who has no brother or whose father is unknown, for fear that the Law of 'female-son...
Page 198 - ... owner of the cows ; in vain would the bull have spent his strength. 51. Thus men who have no marital property in women, but sow their seed in the soil of others, benefit the owner of the woman ; but the giver of the seed reaps no advantage.
Page 328 - This rule does not apply to the wives of actors and singers, nor (of) those who live on (the intrigues of) their own (wives); for such men send their wives (to others) or, concealing themselves, allow them to hold criminal intercourse.
Page 320 - ... the fixed time), wishes to make a new contract, may renew the agreement, after paying the interest which is due. 155. If he cannot pay the money (due as interest), he may insert it in the renewed (agreement) ; he must pay as much interest as may be due. 156. He who has made a contract to carry goods by a wheeled carriage for money and has agreed to a certain place or time, shall not reap that reward, if he does not keep to the place and the time (stipulated). a year has passed
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Manu's Code of Law South Asia Research |
| Authors | Manu, Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite, Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions Director of Center for Asian Studies Patrick Olivelle, Patrick Olivelle, Suman Olivelle |
| Editors | Patrick Olivelle, Suman Olivelle |
| Contributor | Suman Olivelle |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0195171462, 9780195171464 |
| Length | 1131 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Hinduism / General |
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