Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 10

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American Oriental Society., 1880
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Page clxxxviii - Hindu Law. Principally with reference to such portions of it as concern the Administration of Justice in the Courts in India. By SIR THOMAS STRANGE, late Chief Justice of Madras. 2 vols.
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Page 195 - B, though familiar with ia, and a few other of the most ordinary abbreviations, knows nothing of these compendia : which certainly cannot have existed in the earliest copies of all. Once more it seems reasonable to suppose that their constant occurrence in Cod. « indicates for that Codex a date subsequent to Cod. B.

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