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... doubt that the account which Sir William Jones gave of the Book of Manu in his Preface to his translation was a rationalised version of the statements made to him by his native teachers , who seem all to have belonged to one particular ...
... doubt that the account which Sir William Jones gave of the Book of Manu in his Preface to his translation was a rationalised version of the statements made to him by his native teachers , who seem all to have belonged to one particular ...
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... doubt that , if Manu is to be compared to a book known to Englishmen , it should have been to a book a good deal more familiar to them than the Roman Institutes , the book of Leviticus . For Manu , though it contains a good deal of law ...
... doubt that , if Manu is to be compared to a book known to Englishmen , it should have been to a book a good deal more familiar to them than the Roman Institutes , the book of Leviticus . For Manu , though it contains a good deal of law ...
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... they are remediable , by what methods they should be removed : but of their existence I do not think there can be any reasonable doubt . during the Middle Ages much of law and not a СНАР . І. 9 THE SACRED LAWS OF THE HINDUS .
... they are remediable , by what methods they should be removed : but of their existence I do not think there can be any reasonable doubt . during the Middle Ages much of law and not a СНАР . І. 9 THE SACRED LAWS OF THE HINDUS .
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... doubt on the point . It is expressly laid down that it created the same Patria Potestas as actual paternity ; and the literary foster - father , though he teaches gratuitously , has a claim through life upon portions of the property of ...
... doubt on the point . It is expressly laid down that it created the same Patria Potestas as actual paternity ; and the literary foster - father , though he teaches gratuitously , has a claim through life upon portions of the property of ...
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... doubt that many of them have been lost . Sutras are quoted which do not exist in Europe , and the loss of some is acknowledged by the Brahmans themselves . ' As regards the Manava Dharma Shastra , the Manu translated by Sir William ...
... doubt that many of them have been lost . Sutras are quoted which do not exist in Europe , and the loss of some is acknowledged by the Brahmans themselves . ' As regards the Manava Dharma Shastra , the Manu translated by Sir William ...
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