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" The Code of Manu is almost the only work in Sanskrit literature which, as yet, has not been assailed by those who doubt the antiquity of everything Indian. No historian has disputed its claim to that early date which had from the first been assigned to... "
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by Theodor Benfey, Adalbert Bezzenberger
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A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature: So Far as it Illustrates the ...

Friedrich Max Müller - 1859 - 698 pages
...their authority is therefore valid only where it has been checked by more original and genuine texts. The Code of Manu is almost the only work in Sanskrit...those who doubt the antiquity of everything Indian. No historian has disputed its claim to that early date which had, from the first, been assigned to...
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A Handbook of Sanskrit Literature: With Appendices Descriptive ..., Issues 1-7

George Small - 1866 - 240 pages
...called, the ' Laws of Manu,' l is almost the only work in Sanskrit literature," observes Max Muller, "which, as yet, has not been assailed by those who doubt the antiquity of everything Indian. No historian has disproved its claim to that early date which had from the first been assigned to it...
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The International Numismata Orientalia: pt. 1

Edward Thomas - 1874 - 436 pages
...Müller says — " The Code of Mann is almost the only work in Sanskrit literature which has as yet not been assailed by those who doubt the antiquity of everything Indian " ; though he reduces the date to about 400 BC, and points out that the Laws of Manu are paraphrases...
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The Principles of the Hindu Law of Inheritance ...

Rajkumar Sarvadhikari - 1882 - 1072 pages
...Manu is the great representative of this class of works : Manu. "The Code of Manu," says Max Miiller, "is almost the only work in Sanskrit literature which,...those who doubt the antiquity of everything Indian. No historian has disproved its claim to that early date which had, from the first, been assigned to...
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Kleinere sanskritphilologische Schriften

Theodor Benfey - 1894 - 354 pages
...Participialcompositum mit Dvandva als vordrem Glied weiter vorkommt), die Verfertiger des Padaifl Textes abgehalten haben, eine Composition hier anzunehmen....angesetzt (s. das. S. 57. 257. 277 und vgl. auch 82. 246). Was S. 159 in Bezug auf das Verhältniss der griechischen zu den indischen Grammatikern gesagt...
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