Manavadharmasastra (Laws of Manu)
*Text critically edited by J. Jolly. London: Trubner & Co., 1887. Trubner Oriental Series. - Transl. by G. Buhler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886. SBE XXV. (BCW 1:497).
The bibliography cites Julius Jolly's edition of the laws of Manu (1887) and Georg Bühler's translation in Sacred Books of the East, volume XXV (1886). (BCW 4:656).
Also called Manusmriti, a metrical Smriti associated with Manu and closely connected with the Mahabharata. Zirkoff notes its 2,684 verses and cites J. Jolly’s critical edition (1887) and G. Bühler’s translation (1886). (BCW 5:365-366).
An early metrical Smriti closely related to the Mahabharata. De Zirkoff lists J. Jolly’s critical edition (1887) and G. Bühler’s English translation in Sacred Books of the East, volume 25 (1886). (BCW 6:425).
The most important and earliest of the metrical Smritis, prob. based on a Mānavadharmasūtra. Closely connected with the Mahābhārata, of which three books alone (iii. xii. xvi) contain as many as 260 of its 2684 ślokas (BCW 9:443).
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- Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
- CTD article in Russian: Манавадхармашастра
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