22, Contributions to the History of Smrti in Bengal 
and Mithila. 
Part I. 
By Rat MonmonaNn Cuakravarti Banaper, M.A., B.L., 
F.A. AS. 
tion), Prayascitta (expiations), Sraddha (funerals), Krtya (festi- 
vals), Piija (worship), Pratistha (consecration), Dana (gifts), 
of human life, naturally engaged the attention of numerous 
minds, some of them the keenest in intellect. The names of 
s. 
To the historical student these works are of great import- 
tee. In spite of much rubbish and obsolete matters they 
ish him with a mass of information bearing on the social 
‘nd religious life of the people in Bengal at that time. The 
Yorks are also valuable, because & 
*ustoms still survive, and where 0 
inh mF on Hindu personal . 
tance, succession and partition. 
