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... history there are almost no trustworthy dates : but it is now believed to be relatively modern - almost the most modern of a large family of Sanscrit writings more or less treating of law . This opinion is the result of a test first ...
... history there are almost no trustworthy dates : but it is now believed to be relatively modern - almost the most modern of a large family of Sanscrit writings more or less treating of law . This opinion is the result of a test first ...
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... history of two societies with little or no intellectual likeness to the Hindus . Mr. Grote's theory of the Homeric poetry , taken in a mass ( ii . 176-178 ) , is that it was the aggregate production , not of one man , but of a gens or ...
... history of two societies with little or no intellectual likeness to the Hindus . Mr. Grote's theory of the Homeric poetry , taken in a mass ( ii . 176-178 ) , is that it was the aggregate production , not of one man , but of a gens or ...
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... history of Law the most important early specialisation is that which separates what a man ought to do from what he ought to know . A great part of the religious litera- ture , including the Creation of the Universe , the structure of ...
... history of Law the most important early specialisation is that which separates what a man ought to do from what he ought to know . A great part of the religious litera- ture , including the Creation of the Universe , the structure of ...
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... become an Ascetic , but the regular course of life is that in- dicated in the text . history of law . The first of them , Studentship € 2 СНАР . І. 19 THE SACRED LAWS OF THE HINDUS . and give him full directions for living first as a ...
... become an Ascetic , but the regular course of life is that in- dicated in the text . history of law . The first of them , Studentship € 2 СНАР . І. 19 THE SACRED LAWS OF THE HINDUS . and give him full directions for living first as a ...
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Henry Sumner Maine. history of law . The first of them , Studentship , is remarkable , as disclosing the true secret of the hold of the sacred literature on large portions of the Hindu race , and of the respect paid by it to the teachers ...
Henry Sumner Maine. history of law . The first of them , Studentship , is remarkable , as disclosing the true secret of the hold of the sacred literature on large portions of the Hindu race , and of the respect paid by it to the teachers ...
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