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1Haas, the well-known student of Indian medical science. A somewhat analogous passage in the canonical literature of the Buddhists has been kindly pointed out to me by Mr. Rhys Davids’. 1 Xullavagga X, 17,1. See Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx, p. 349. INTRODUCTION. Xxi The sign of an asterisk (*) has been prefixed to those Narada’s repute texts of Narada which were found to be asa legal writer. quoted in one or several of the Sanskrit Commentaries or Digests of Law. The same method has been observed previously in the Bibliotheca Indica edition of the Sanskrit text, but a considerable number of quotations has come to light since then. The repute of Narada as a legal writer appears to have been so great that upwards of half his work has been embodied in the authoritative compositions of the mediaeval and modern writers in the province of Sanskrit law. Under the heading of Quotations from Narada, all those texts have been collected at the close of the present transla- ‘Quotations from tion which are attributed to Narada in one or Narada.’ —_—_ several of the Digests and Commentaries, without being traceable in the MSS. of the Narada-smriti. Between these quotations have been inserted, for the sake of completeness and in order to fill up the gaps between the single texts contained in the quotations, a number of unpublished texts from the MSS. of the minor version, and from the final chapter on Ordeals in the ancient Nepalese MS. of the Nérada-smriti'. A complete edition of that chapter will, I trust, be published by Dr. A. Conrady. The quotations have been taken from all the principal Sanskrit works on law, from Medhatithi’s Manubh4shya downwards. For a detailed statement of the particular work and chapter from which each text has been quoted, I may refer to the foot-notes. Most texts being quoted in more than one work at a time, it has not been thought necessary to give complete references to every such work in each particular case, but I have made a point of referring as much as possible to those law-books which exist in English, both for convenience of reference and in order to facilitate a comparison of the present translation with previous renderings of the texts of Narada. All the unpublished texts have been given in the foot-notes in the original Sanskrit, together with the names of the works from which they have been taken. The MSS. 1 Regarding that chapter, see Preface to Narada-smriti, pp. 6, 7. XXii NARADA.
2All the unpublished texts have been given in the foot-notes in the original Sanskrit, together with the names of the works from which they have been taken. The MSS. 1 Regarding that chapter, see Preface to Narada-smriti, pp. 6, 7. XXii NARADA. of these works were obtained principally from the India Office and Deccan College libraries; for some of them I was able to use copies of my own. A peculiar source of difficulties lies in the fact that these works differ considerably as to the names of the authors of the single texts. Many texts were no doubt proverbial sayings, and appropriated therefore by several writers. In other cases, the mutually conflicting statements of various writers regarding the authorship of the texts may be attributed to carelessness. Grammatical blunders and faulty readings, as well as the varietas lectionis, have been referred to in important cases only. I subjoin a list of the abbreviations used in the foot-notes to the present translation. ABBREVIATIONS. Apararka=Apararka’s Commentary on the Y4g#avalkya-smriii, Deccan College MS. Apastamba, see Manu. Baudhfyana, see Manu. Col. Dig.=Colebrooke’s Digest of Hindu Law (translation of Gagannatha’s work). Dayabhaga=Colebrooke’s translation of the Dayabh4ga on Inheritance, or the Sanskrit text of the D., in the Calcutta edition of 1829. Dayakramasangraha= Wyncbh’s translation in Stokes’s Hindu Law- Books, or the Calcutta edition. Gagannatha= Gagannatha’s Vivadabhangarmava (the work translated by Colebrooke), Bengali MS. in my possession. Gautama, see Manu. M. or Mitaéksharé = Mitakshara, the Calcutta edition of the VyavaharadhyAya, or Colebrooke’s version of the Mitakshara on + Inheritance. ( M. Macn.= Macnaghten’s translation of the Mitékshara on Ad- ministration of Justice. Manu=the Code of Manu, ed. Jolly, London, 1887; or Professor Bihler’s translation of the same. For the principal editions and translations of Apastamba, Baudhfyana, and the other old lawbooks, I may refer to my volume of Tagore Law Lectures. May.= Mandlik’s translation of the Vyavahara May(kha, in his Hindu Law, Bombay, 1880. May. (text)=Mandlik’s edition of the same, ibid. Mayfkha=the same work. Minor Narada= The Institutes of Narada, transl. by J. Jolly, London, 1876; or the unpublished Sanskrit original of the same work. Ndrada=the present translation. Nfarada-smriti=The Institutes of Narada, edited by J. Jolly, in the Bibliotheca Indica series. Nepalese Narada = Mr. Bendall’s Nepalese Palm-leaf MS. of Narada. Raghunandana=Raghunandana's Vyavahfratattva, the Calcutta edition. Ratn.= Vivada Ratnakara, in the Bibliotheca Indica. XXIV . ABBREVIATIONS. Smritik. = Devannabha/fa’s Smritifandrika, India Office MS. SmritikandrikA=the same, or the chapter on Inheritance, transl. by Iyer. Tod. or Todarananda=Vyavahfrasaukhya in Zodar Mall’s Zodarananda, Deccan College MS. (Uncertain)=texts quoted as ‘Smriti’ generally, without the name of the author being given. Vasish‘ha, see Manu.
3SmritikandrikA=the same, or the chapter on Inheritance, transl. by Iyer. Tod. or Todarananda=Vyavahfrasaukhya in Zodar Mall’s Zodarananda, Deccan College MS. (Uncertain)=texts quoted as ‘Smriti’ generally, without the name of the author being given. Vasish‘ha, see Manu. Viram. = Viramitrodaya, in Jibananda Vidyds4gara’s edition. Vishnu, see Manu. Viv.=Vivadagintémazi, translated by Tagore, Calcutta, 1863. Vivadafintamani=the Sanskrit text, Calcutta edition of 1837. V. T.=Vivadaténdava by Kamalfkara, India Office MS. Vy. K.=Vyavaharatintamani by Vazaspatimisra, Devanégart MS. in my possession. Yagfavalkya, see Manu. THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 1. Hoty Manu, in order to promote the welfare of all beings, composed a book here, which was to become the foundation of the established rule of conduct. It was made up of twenty-four sections, on (1) the creation of the world; (2) the various kinds of living beings; (3) the extent of the virtuous 1. Regarding the historical value and bearing of this Preface, see Introduction. The table of contents, which is here given for the original Code of Manu, corresponds in the main to the contents of the now extant version of that work. Thus the creation of the world is treated of, Manu I, 5-57 ; the various kinds of living beings, I, 34-50; the virtuous countries, II, 17-23; the constitution of a judicial assembly, XII, ro8—114; the performance of offerings, III, 69-286; IV, 21-28, &c.; established usage (AZ4ra), passim, all the multifarious rules of private morals and social economy falling under this head ; forensic law, chapters VIII and IX; the extirpation of offenders, IX, 252-293; the mode of life of a king, chapter VII; the system of the four castes and four orders, I, 87-101; IX, 325-336, &c.; marriage laws, III, 1-62; the mutual relations between husband and wife, 1X, 1-103; the order of succession, IX, 103-220; the performance of obsequies, III, 122-286; rules of purification, V, 57-146; rules of diet, V, 1-56; saleable commodities, and those which may not be sold, X, 85-94; the classification of offences, XI, 55-71; the twenty-one hells, 1V, 88-90; penances, XI, 72- 266. The Upanishads are frequently referred to, e.g. If, 165; VI, 29. Secret or mysterious doctrines are e.g. those taught in the twelfth chapter of the Code of Manu. A somewhat analogous table of contents of the Code of Manu is given in that work itself, I, 111-118. [33] @t B 2 NARADA.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1Haas, the well-known student of Indian medical science. A somewhat analogous passage in the canonical literature of the Buddhists has been kindly pointed out to me by Mr. Rhys Davids’. 1 Xullavagga X, 17,1. See Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx, p. 349. INTRODUCTION. Xxi The sign of an asterisk (*) has been prefixed to those Narada’s repute texts of Narada which were found to be asa legal writer. quoted in one or several of the Sanskrit Commentaries or Digests of Law. The same method has been observed previously in the Bibliotheca Indica edition of the Sanskrit text, but a considerable number of quotations has come to light since then. The repute of Narada as a legal writer appears to have been so great that upwards of half his work has been embodied in the authoritative compositions of the mediaeval and modern writers in the province of Sanskrit law. Under the heading of Quotations from Narada, all those texts have been collected at the close of the present transla- ‘Quotations from tion which are attributed to Narada in one or Narada.’ —_—_ several of the Digests and Commentaries, without being traceable in the MSS. of the Narada-smriti. Between these quotations have been inserted, for the sake of completeness and in order to fill up the gaps between the single texts contained in the quotations, a number of unpublished texts from the MSS. of the minor version, and from the final chapter on Ordeals in the ancient Nepalese MS. of the Nérada-smriti'. A complete edition of that chapter will, I trust, be published by Dr. A. Conrady. The quotations have been taken from all the principal Sanskrit works on law, from Medhatithi’s Manubh4shya downwards. For a detailed statement of the particular work and chapter from which each text has been quoted, I may refer to the foot-notes. Most texts being quoted in more than one work at a time, it has not been thought necessary to give complete references to every such work in each particular case, but I have made a point of referring as much as possible to those law-books which exist in English, both for convenience of reference and in order to facilitate a comparison of the present translation with previous renderings of the texts of Narada. All the unpublished texts have been given in the foot-notes in the original Sanskrit, together with the names of the works from which they have been taken. The MSS. 1 Regarding that chapter, see Preface to Narada-smriti, pp. 6, 7. XXii NARADA.
2All the unpublished texts have been given in the foot-notes in the original Sanskrit, together with the names of the works from which they have been taken. The MSS. 1 Regarding that chapter, see Preface to Narada-smriti, pp. 6, 7. XXii NARADA. of these works were obtained principally from the India Office and Deccan College libraries; for some of them I was able to use copies of my own. A peculiar source of difficulties lies in the fact that these works differ considerably as to the names of the authors of the single texts. Many texts were no doubt proverbial sayings, and appropriated therefore by several writers. In other cases, the mutually conflicting statements of various writers regarding the authorship of the texts may be attributed to carelessness. Grammatical blunders and faulty readings, as well as the varietas lectionis, have been referred to in important cases only. I subjoin a list of the abbreviations used in the foot-notes to the present translation. ABBREVIATIONS. Apararka=Apararka’s Commentary on the Y4g#avalkya-smriii, Deccan College MS. Apastamba, see Manu. Baudhfyana, see Manu. Col. Dig.=Colebrooke’s Digest of Hindu Law (translation of Gagannatha’s work). Dayabhaga=Colebrooke’s translation of the Dayabh4ga on Inheritance, or the Sanskrit text of the D., in the Calcutta edition of 1829. Dayakramasangraha= Wyncbh’s translation in Stokes’s Hindu Law- Books, or the Calcutta edition. Gagannatha= Gagannatha’s Vivadabhangarmava (the work translated by Colebrooke), Bengali MS. in my possession. Gautama, see Manu. M. or Mitaéksharé = Mitakshara, the Calcutta edition of the VyavaharadhyAya, or Colebrooke’s version of the Mitakshara on + Inheritance. ( M. Macn.= Macnaghten’s translation of the Mitékshara on Ad- ministration of Justice. Manu=the Code of Manu, ed. Jolly, London, 1887; or Professor Bihler’s translation of the same. For the principal editions and translations of Apastamba, Baudhfyana, and the other old lawbooks, I may refer to my volume of Tagore Law Lectures. May.= Mandlik’s translation of the Vyavahara May(kha, in his Hindu Law, Bombay, 1880. May. (text)=Mandlik’s edition of the same, ibid. Mayfkha=the same work. Minor Narada= The Institutes of Narada, transl. by J. Jolly, London, 1876; or the unpublished Sanskrit original of the same work. Ndrada=the present translation. Nfarada-smriti=The Institutes of Narada, edited by J. Jolly, in the Bibliotheca Indica series. Nepalese Narada = Mr. Bendall’s Nepalese Palm-leaf MS. of Narada. Raghunandana=Raghunandana's Vyavahfratattva, the Calcutta edition. Ratn.= Vivada Ratnakara, in the Bibliotheca Indica. XXIV . ABBREVIATIONS. Smritik. = Devannabha/fa’s Smritifandrika, India Office MS. SmritikandrikA=the same, or the chapter on Inheritance, transl. by Iyer. Tod. or Todarananda=Vyavahfrasaukhya in Zodar Mall’s Zodarananda, Deccan College MS. (Uncertain)=texts quoted as ‘Smriti’ generally, without the name of the author being given. Vasish‘ha, see Manu.
3SmritikandrikA=the same, or the chapter on Inheritance, transl. by Iyer. Tod. or Todarananda=Vyavahfrasaukhya in Zodar Mall’s Zodarananda, Deccan College MS. (Uncertain)=texts quoted as ‘Smriti’ generally, without the name of the author being given. Vasish‘ha, see Manu. Viram. = Viramitrodaya, in Jibananda Vidyds4gara’s edition. Vishnu, see Manu. Viv.=Vivadagintémazi, translated by Tagore, Calcutta, 1863. Vivadafintamani=the Sanskrit text, Calcutta edition of 1837. V. T.=Vivadaténdava by Kamalfkara, India Office MS. Vy. K.=Vyavaharatintamani by Vazaspatimisra, Devanégart MS. in my possession. Yagfavalkya, see Manu. THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 1. Hoty Manu, in order to promote the welfare of all beings, composed a book here, which was to become the foundation of the established rule of conduct. It was made up of twenty-four sections, on (1) the creation of the world; (2) the various kinds of living beings; (3) the extent of the virtuous 1. Regarding the historical value and bearing of this Preface, see Introduction. The table of contents, which is here given for the original Code of Manu, corresponds in the main to the contents of the now extant version of that work. Thus the creation of the world is treated of, Manu I, 5-57 ; the various kinds of living beings, I, 34-50; the virtuous countries, II, 17-23; the constitution of a judicial assembly, XII, ro8—114; the performance of offerings, III, 69-286; IV, 21-28, &c.; established usage (AZ4ra), passim, all the multifarious rules of private morals and social economy falling under this head ; forensic law, chapters VIII and IX; the extirpation of offenders, IX, 252-293; the mode of life of a king, chapter VII; the system of the four castes and four orders, I, 87-101; IX, 325-336, &c.; marriage laws, III, 1-62; the mutual relations between husband and wife, 1X, 1-103; the order of succession, IX, 103-220; the performance of obsequies, III, 122-286; rules of purification, V, 57-146; rules of diet, V, 1-56; saleable commodities, and those which may not be sold, X, 85-94; the classification of offences, XI, 55-71; the twenty-one hells, 1V, 88-90; penances, XI, 72- 266. The Upanishads are frequently referred to, e.g. If, 165; VI, 29. Secret or mysterious doctrines are e.g. those taught in the twelfth chapter of the Code of Manu. A somewhat analogous table of contents of the Code of Manu is given in that work itself, I, 111-118. [33] @t B 2 NARADA.
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