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by Colebrooke and Prasannakumar Tagore. Its findings have 
been largely adopted and incorporated into the judge-made 
positive law of the Hindus in Bengal. The importance of this 
treatise for Bengal lawyers can therefore be hardly exaggerated. 
Both at the outset and towards the end (verses 1 and 2) 
lt the author declared that he had com- 
s Contents. 
division, first of father’s property (Ch. I), next of grandfather's 
property (Ch. IL), and then division by brothers after father’s 
death (Ch. III). The fourth chapter is devoted to woman s 
(Ch. XII). The thirteenth is devoted to joint property kept 
ment of inheritance disputes by court. The fifteenth gives only 
the three verses concluding the work. 
Quotations from and references to authorities are not in- 
Its R frequent, but are in number smaller 
ee en: than those in his other two works. The 
(Uotations are, asarule, from the Smrtikara Rsis; one only from 
Stuti (iv. 2.14), one from the Dana-dharma of the Ma 
hes 1.60), and one only from @ Purana, the Markandeya, 
i. 1) have been found. On a rough computation of the 
Names in the first four chapters or nearly half of the work, the 
tol Owing sages appear most :—Manu (37), Narada _ 
Yajfiavalkya (21), Katyayana (18), Brhaspati (12). One 
Wotation is vaguely called Pramanika-vacanam or authoritative 
‘aying (iv. 1. 17). : 
Among the later writers are mentioned :— 
povindaraja in Manu-tika (1). alsa eh 
Ojade : -. title isvari : . 
Petecdvere eae Stikara, once entitled Misra 
Bilaka, shortened once (7). 
to Bala (5) 
