law · 2nd century BCE · 2 crossings
Manusmriti
मनुस्मृतिManusmrti
The ordinances of Manu: dharma codified. Its English chain begins with a Calcutta judge who needed the law he was supposed to administer.
The chain
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translated by William Jones in Calcutta
Jones proposed the codification project to Cornwallis himself in 1788, having written three years earlier that he could no longer bear to be 'at the mercy of our pandits, who deal out Hindu law as they please'. The Institutes were printed by order of the Government at Calcutta early in 1794; Jones died there that April.
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translated by Georg Buhler in Oxford
Volume 25 of the Sacred Books of the East: the scholarly replacement for Jones, with the apparatus his century lacked.