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The Vivadaratnakara of Candesvara Thakkure (14th cent.) is one of the most comprehensive works on the substantive portion of Hindu law and is respected by the Mithila school as a most authoritative treatise. The peculiar feature of the work is that it cites almost all the Codes of the sages, bearing on a particular subject and puts them in such an order that the various rules of law appear from the texts themselves in their logical sequence. As usual, the ...
The institutes of various sages, as embodied in the Dharmasastra, which form the primary source of the Hindu law, treat law in the widest sense of the term. In these institutes, no distinction was drawn between positive law on the one hand and laws of morality and religion on the other. But the religion on the other. But the distinction appeared gradually, some traces of it can be found in the institutes of Yajnavalkya, which devote a separate chapter, calle ...