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Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya

Chapter 19: Index
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An English rendering, with extensive explanatory notes and an introductory apparatus, presents a classical Sanskrit Dharma-śāstra attributed to Yājñavalkya that lays out rules for duties, caste relations, rites, civil and criminal liabilities, property and inheritance, and judicial procedure. The editors provide textual comparisons, corrigenda, and selections from standard commentaries such as the Mitākṣarā to clarify ambiguous passages, while verse-by-verse translation is paired with jurisprudential annotation that explains legal terms, penalties, fines, and practical modes of adjudication within the traditional framework.


Index

 Page. Sloka. Note.
A.      
Abduction of virgins,76 287 ...
Abortion, causing,75 277 ...
Abusive language, punishment for,62210,11...
Áchára, Introd.x......
Áchárya,29...113
Adultery,76283-86...
Age, when, in Śúdrás, to be honored,5116...
Ancestral property, recovered, not divisible,39119...
"               "               "          if land how divisible,39...139
"               "        co-equal ownership in, of father and son,39121...
Appeal of suits to the monarch,79305...
Apprenticeship, contract of, inviolable,56184...
Appropriation of pledges, &c., forbidden,1626...
Arrest on suspicion, when allowable,72266-8...
"          "           how followed up,73269...
Ársha marriage41...150
Artha Śástra,14...21
Ascetics, succession to,45137...
Assault, where without witness, how triable,62212...
Aurasa son,41128...
       
B.      
Battering, injury to a wall by, fineable,64223...
Bestiality,77289...
Blind children inherit maintenance only,46140...
Boundaries, disputed, how determined,48150-3...
"          false evidence as to, fineable,49153...
"          breaking or overstepping,49155...
"          wrongfully appropriating,1626...
"          law of limitation does not apply to,1625...
Brahmá, defined and explained, Introd.vii......
Bráhma marriage,41...150
Bráhmaṇs, omission to invite, fineable,72263...
Brahmachári (professed), succession to,45137...
Brothers and sisters, duty of, to complete each others' ritual,40124...
Brothers and half-brothers, when succeed to each other,45138,9...
Buyer not accepting, how treated,70255...
       
C.     
Capture of thieves & others, when warranted,72266-8...
Carnal knowledge, what illegal,77289-94...
Carriers of goods, liabilities of,60197,8...
Cast, distinctions of,310...
"     a religious ordinance, its origin, gradual development, and fixed character, explained, Introd.vii-ix......
Cattle, trespass by, law as to,50159-63...
Communities and guilds, laws as to their constitution and conduct,57185-92...
Correction of wrong doers, a monarch's duty,6360...
Counter-complaints, as to,109,10...
Counterfeit gold, trading with, how punishable,78297...
Courts, different grades of,1730...
Creditor, how may enforce his debt,2040...
"     not accepting payment loses future interest,2144...
Cremation, disposal of corpse by, from what date,4...14
Criminals, atrocious, who,29...113
Cripple, heir who is a, entitled to maintenance,46140...
Cultivation, incomplete, consequence of breach of duty by,50158...
Customs levy, fraudulent avoidance of,71262...
Cut-purses, how punished,74274...
      
D.     
Dams, slight private injury not to interfere with construction of,50156...
"     in private lands, whose the right of use,50157...
Damage, by brutes or inanimate things, when excusable,78298...
Daiva marriage,41...150
Daughter's son, puttriká-suta,41128...
Daughter, affianced, penalty for withholding,47146...
"          "            when dies, how dowry, &c. appropriated,47146...
Daughters, unmarried, of those disqualified to inherit, to be provided for,46141...
Death caused by vehicles accidentally not imputable,78299...
Debts, may be enforced,2040...
"     in what order payable,2041...
"     impost on recovered2042...
"     how to be met where debtor without means,2143...
"     of undivided kinsmen payable from the family fund,2145...
"     separate, need not be discharged by the family,2146...
"     of father, what not obligatory on son,2147...
"          "         what obligatory,2250...
"     of wives of herdsmen, &c., to be paid,2248...
"     how proveable,2250...
"     between what persons forbidden,2352...
"     obligatory on lineal descendants,3270...
"     formalities of payment of,3393,4...
"     pass with property to successor,2251...
Decisions, judicial, when to be annulled by Monarch,1831...
Deposit, upanidhi,2665...
"        nikshepa and other sorts of,2667...
"        wrongful appropriation of,1625,6...
"        not to be used,2667...
Depositee, when liable for loss,2666...
Dhanus, a land measure,52167218
Dharma Śástras, promulgators of,24,5...
"            "          Professor Stenzler's list of, Introd.v......
Dharma wife,41148150
Disease, incurable, a bar to inheritance,46140...
Division of property, equal, amongst sons,38117...
"          periods of,38114137
"          amongst sons, mother's right on,40123...
       
E.     
Earnest, on sale, &c.,25...85
Earnings of science, not subject to distribution,39119...
Elephant stealers to be impaled,74273...
Evidence, when not to be given,2352...
       
F.     
Fabrication of royal grant, fineable,78295...
False weight, fine for declaring,71262...
Ferry-man, levying land-toll, fineable,72263...
Fighting-games, wagers at, rules as to,61203...
Fines, highest, medium, lowest,8365...
Food, unfit, graduated fines for giving,78296...
Fraudulent buying or selling,72262...
       
G.     
Gambling, rules respecting,60199-203...
Gándharva marriage,41...150
Gifts, not subject to distribution,39118-123...
"    of what properly permitted,54175...
"    how to be accepted,54176...
Girl's son,42129...
Gráma,52167219
Grandsons inherit per stirpes,39120...
Guru described,29...113
       
H.     
Half-brothers, reunited, inherit,45139...
Heirs, who, where no male issue,43135...
"     of hermit,                              }     
"     of ascetic,                            }45 137 ...
"     of professed brahmachári, }   
Herdsmen, how punishable for cattle-trespass,51161...
"        duty of,52164...
"        consequence of loss by fault of,52115...
Hermit, heirs of,45137...
Hirer for transport of goods, breach of contact by,60198...
Honor, gradations of,4116...
Horse-stealers, to be impaled,74273...
House-breakers, to be impaled,74273...
House, dwelling, casting noxious things into, fineable,64224...
       
I.     
Idiot, to be maintained,46140...
Impotent, to be maintained,46140...
Incendiaries, to be burned,75282...
Indorsement of payment on document,3393...
Injury to cattle,65225,26...
"    to trees, shrubs, &c.,65227-29...
Instigator of sáhasa,35231...
Instruments (documents), holograph need not be witnessed,3289...
"           destroyed, to be renewed,3391...
"          authenticity of, how ascertained,3392...
"          classed,33...128
Interest, what chargeable,1937-39...
Investiture of the twice-born,414...
       
J.     
Joint traders, law as to,71259,60...
Judges, appointment of,92...
"        corrupt, to be amerced,94...
       
K     
Karvaṭa, a sudder station,52167219
Káya marriage,41...150
Killing, fine for,75277...
King's wife, punishment for adultery with,75282...
       
L.     
Law, what it is, exemplified,36...
"    its root or evidence,37...
"    by whom to be declared,39...
Limitation of suit,1524,5...
Loss on metals by action of fire,54178...
"    or increase in weight, of wool, etc., by working,55179,80...
"    how to be made good by artisans,55181...
Lost property, as to finding of,1833-35...
" " how claimed,53171...
Lost property, clandestine recovery of, punishable,53172...
"          "       when found by public officers must be claimed,53173...
"          "       if animal, what impost payable by owner,54174...
       
M.     
Madmen do not inherit but to be maintained,46140...
Mantras, necessary to rites of twice-born,410...
Marriage, differing forms of,41...150
Marriage-gift not subject to partition,38118...
Meat, tainted, punishment for selling,78297...
Miscellaneous offences,60232-50...
Monarch, his daily duties,5326...
"     how he should deal with a newly subjugated territory,5342...
"     his duty to punish wrong-doers,5353,357,8...
"     to investigate law suits with the {6359...
                 judges,                                        {91...
"     to set right those who err,6360...
"     when should annul decisions,1831...
"     to fix prices, receiving a twentieth,70253-261...
"     his retribution for an unjust fine,80307...
Mother's share on partition among sons,40123...
Munis, what, two classes of,1...1
Murder, investigation into,75280...
"       and theft, village &c. responsible for,73271,2...
Murderers, violent, to be impaled,74273...
       
N.     
Nagara,52167219
Nikshepa deposit, not to be used,2667...
       
O.     
Ordeals, to be resorted to where proof wanting,1422...
"     used for exculpation when agreed on,3495,6...
           viz., scales, hot iron, water, poison, described,3597-113...
Orders or periods of life of the twice-born,1...13
       
P.     
Paiśácha marriage,41...150
Partition, during father's lifetime,37114-16...
"     after decease of parents,38117-126...
Partners for profit, rules for guidance of,72265...
Pasture-ground, village, how allotted,52166...
Payment of debt, how to be evidenced,3393,4...
Plaint, cause of action in, not to vary from original statement,109...
Plaintiff, how to proceed in a suit,105-8...
Pleadings in a suit,106,7...
Pledges, law of,2458-67...
Práyaschitta, Introd.x......
Prescription or usucapion, law of,1524-2825-34
Prices, regulated by the sovereign,69251...
"       process to determine,70253...
Priority, its importance in gifts, pledges and sales,1523...
Procedure, the four steps in,105-8...
Profits, how calculated,69251,2...
Prohibited articles, forfeited if sold,71261...
Proof, absence of, fatal to suit,1419...
"     of part sometimes sufficient,1420...
"     of three kinds,1422...
Property, how divided,38117-126...
"        stolen, cannot pass by sale,52168...
"        lost or stolen, how to be dealt with,53169...
"        lost, claim to, how supported,53171...
"        of one dying in foreign country, succession to,72264...
Punishment, a monarch's duty,5353...
"             Brahmá created in form of,5353...
"             impartiality in,5357...
"             how apportioned,8366,7...
Purchase, time allowed for trial of different articles on,51177...
Purchaser cannot recede from his bargain,70258...
Purloiners and cut-purses how to be treated,74274...
Puttriká-suta,41...151
       
R.     
Rákshasa marriage,41...150
Realm, why called seven-limbed,5352...
Receipt to be given for payments,3393...
Reunited sharers, as to partition among,45138,9...
Rites of the twice-born,410...
Rituals of younger brothers and sisters to be completed by the elder,40124...
       
S.     
Sáhasa,65230...
Sale and purchase, rules as to,70246-258...
Śástras, Dharma, promulgators of, Introd.v & 24,5...
Self-acquired property not divisible on partition,38118...
Seller failing to deliver pays damage,70254...
"     of lost or stolen property,53169,70...
Separation of a brother not desiring to share,37116...
Servant, inattentive, how master may treat,59195...
Sisters, rituals of, to be performed by brothers,40124...
Slavery and servitude, analysis of,56...239
"       when redemption from, a right,55182...
"       to be in the order of casts,56183...
Smriti,379
Sodomy77293...
Sons, description of the twelve,40128-132...
"     the first in order to be heir,43132...
"     of a slave-mother by a Śúdrá,43133...
"     by mothers of different cast, how to share,40125...
"     lawfully begotten on another's wife,40127...
Special pleading,111717
Śruti,379
Stolen property, monarch to restore,1936...
Stridhana, definition of,46143...
"      succession to,38117...
"      where no issue,47145...
"      when may be appropriated by husband,47147...
Subornation,3181...
Śúdrá, son of, on a slave,43133...
Sureties, by parties to a suit,1110...
"          who may not be,23 ,6752,239...
"          for what may be given,2353...
"          when sons of, liable,2354...
"          liabilities and reimbursement of,2355,6...
       
T.     
Theft, when village governor &c. liable if not traced,73271,2...
"     punishment of, variations in,74273-5...
"     accessory after,74276...
Thief, capture of, on suspicion,72266-9...
Threats of injury,62208,9...
Title and possession,1727-29...
Traders,68244-262...
Treasure found, how appropriated,1934,5...
"               "     concealment of, punishable,1935...
Twice-born man, may appropriate grass, fuel, and flowers,52166...
"        "     why so called,439...
       
U.     
Untruth in testimony to save life, how atoned for,3183...
Upanidhi,2665...
Usage, when argument founded on, of force,1421...
Use or hire of various things, what to be given for,2457...
Uterine brothers, their preferable position,45138,9...
       
V.     
Violent aggression or Sáhasa,66230...
Violence on female slaves,77291277
Virgin, abduction of,76287...
"     ravishing,77288...
Vyavahára, Introd.x......
       
W.     
Wager, collateral to suit, enforced,1318...
"       at fighting games, rules as to,61203...
Well, digging of, encouraged,50156...
Weights, tables of,6 ,7361-429
"     false declaration of, penalty for,71262...
Widow, whoever takes, must pay former husband's debts,2251...
Wife's share, on partition by her husband among his sons, if no stridhana,37115...
Wife, Dharma,41...150
Wife's son,41 &46128&141...
Wives of those disqualified to inherit,46142...
Wife, superseded, how compensated,48148...
Witness, when one sufficient,2872...
"     contumacious,3076,78...
"     false,3181...
"     when permitted to speak untruth,3183...
"     when permitted to equivocate,31...121
"     who proper to be,2768-9...
"     who admissable as,2870-1...
"     exceptions to incompetency of,2872...
"     how to be warned by the judge,2973-5...
"     how to test credit of,3078-80...
Women, crimes of,75278,9...
"        vilifying,77289...
"        public,77292...
Workman, deserting his work,59193...
"       to have charge of the implements,59193...
"       hire of, terms of, to be pre-arranged, under penalty,59194...
"       how to be paid where two employed,59196...
Wounding, punished by the highest fine,75277...
       
Y.     
Yájnavalkya, data for fixing when his code promulgated, Introd.x......
Yogís,1...1