Contents

PREFACE

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction

PART I: NATURE AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF LAW

CHAPTER ONE

Early Thinkers

1. Apastamba (Late Third Century B.C.E.)

2. Patanjali (Mid-Second Century B.C.E.)

CHAPTER TWO

Later Aphoristic Texts on Dharma

1. Gautama (Late Second Century B.C.E.)

2. Baudhayana (Early First Century B.C.E.)

3. Vasistha (Late First Century B.C.E.)

CHAPTER THREE

Perspectives from Political Science: Kautilya (First–Second Century C.E.)

CHAPTER FOUR

Innovations of Manu (Mid-Second Century C.E.)

CHAPTER FIVE

Developments After Manu

1. Yajnavalkya (Fourth–Fifth Century C.E.)

2. Vishnu (Seventh Century C.E.)

3. Parasara (Seventh–Eighth Century C.E.)

CHAPTER SIX

The School of Vedic Exegesis

1. Sabara (Fifth Century C.E.)

2. Kumarila (Seventh Century C.E.)

CHAPTER SEVEN

Early Commentators

1. Bharuci (Seventh Century C.E.)

2. Visvarupa (Early Ninth Century C.E.)

3. Medhatithi (Second Half of the Ninth Century C.E.)

CHAPTER EIGHT

Medieval Commentators and Systematizers

1. Commentators of Manu

 

Govindaraja (Eleventh–Twelfth Century C.E.)

Nandana

Kulluka (Fourteenth Century C.E.)

 

2. Commentators of Yajnavalkya

 

Vijnanesvara (fl. 1100–1125 C.E.)

Apararka (First Half of the Twelfth Century C.E.)

 

3. Legal Digests: Nibandhas

 

Devanna Bhatta (Circa 1200 C.E.)

PART II: COURTS OF LAW AND LEGAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER NINE

The Beginnings

1. Apastamba

2. Gautama

3. Baudhayana

4. Vasistha

CHAPTER TEN

The Early Theorists

1. Kautilya

2. Manu

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Mature Phase

1. Yajnavalkya

2. Narada (Fifth–Sixth Century C.E.)

CHAPTER TWELVE

Early Commentators

1. Bharuci

2. Medhatithi

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Medieval Commentators and Systematizers

1. Vijnanesvara

2. Devanna Bhatta

 

NOTES

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX