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The Dāya-crama-sangraha, an original treatise on the Hindoo law of inheritance. Calcutta: P. Pereira at the Hindostanee Press, 1818.
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TARKALANKARA, Sri Krishna (fl. 18th century) – Paul Marriot WYNCH (c.1780-1841, translator)
The Dāya-crama-sangraha, an original treatise on the Hindoo law of inheritance. Calcutta: P. Pereira at the Hindostanee Press, 1818.
First edition of a rare Calcutta publication on inheritance in the Dayabhaga (Bengal) tradition of Hindu law. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in Calcutta to the Liverpool Athenaeum in the year of publication. Wynch’s translation from the Sanskrit original was undertaken ‘for the purpose of affording assistance to those entrusted with the due administration of justice in the Province of Bengal’ (Preface). Detailing the order of succession and the division of property among male and female heirs, it was used to adjudicate local property rights, estate divisions, and family succession disputes under British colonial rule in India. A second edition was issued at Bhowanipore in 1878.
Folio (303 x 222mm). Text in English and Sanskrit, folding letterpress genealogical chart. Contemporary diced russia gilt, all edges gilt (rubbed with loss at spine, upper board detached). Provenance: Liverpool Athenaeum (ink stamps, binding, authorial presentation inscription on front endpaper dated 14th July 1818, with the Athenaeum’s label on front pastedown recording the same details).
The Dāya-crama-sangraha, an original treatise on the Hindoo law of inheritance. Calcutta: P. Pereira at the Hindostanee Press, 1818.
First edition of a rare Calcutta publication on inheritance in the Dayabhaga (Bengal) tradition of Hindu law. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in Calcutta to the Liverpool Athenaeum in the year of publication. Wynch’s translation from the Sanskrit original was undertaken ‘for the purpose of affording assistance to those entrusted with the due administration of justice in the Province of Bengal’ (Preface). Detailing the order of succession and the division of property among male and female heirs, it was used to adjudicate local property rights, estate divisions, and family succession disputes under British colonial rule in India. A second edition was issued at Bhowanipore in 1878.
Folio (303 x 222mm). Text in English and Sanskrit, folding letterpress genealogical chart. Contemporary diced russia gilt, all edges gilt (rubbed with loss at spine, upper board detached). Provenance: Liverpool Athenaeum (ink stamps, binding, authorial presentation inscription on front endpaper dated 14th July 1818, with the Athenaeum’s label on front pastedown recording the same details).
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