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... fact from these native Hindu teachers that Sir William Jones learned , and the learned and curious all over the West were gradually informed , that in a part of the world just coming under the British sceptre there existed an ancient ...
... fact from these native Hindu teachers that Sir William Jones learned , and the learned and curious all over the West were gradually informed , that in a part of the world just coming under the British sceptre there existed an ancient ...
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... fact , to have regarded it as standing to this projected Digest much in the same relation as the Roman Institutes to the celebrated Digest of the Emperor Justinian . It does not seem to me possible to doubt that the account which Sir ...
... fact , to have regarded it as standing to this projected Digest much in the same relation as the Roman Institutes to the celebrated Digest of the Emperor Justinian . It does not seem to me possible to doubt that the account which Sir ...
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... fact be affirmed to consist of a very great number of local bodies of usage , and of one set of customs , reduced to writing , pretending to a diviner authority than the rest , exercising con- sequently a great influence over them , and ...
... fact be affirmed to consist of a very great number of local bodies of usage , and of one set of customs , reduced to writing , pretending to a diviner authority than the rest , exercising con- sequently a great influence over them , and ...
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... fact some singularly close resemblances to the most ancient Roman law . There is also evidence that the stream of Hinduism which at some time or another flowed over the southern peninsula of India was extremely superficial.2 The ...
... fact some singularly close resemblances to the most ancient Roman law . There is also evidence that the stream of Hinduism which at some time or another flowed over the southern peninsula of India was extremely superficial.2 The ...
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... fact that there was not one body of Kalpa - Sutras binding on all Brahmanic families , but that different old fami- lies had their own Kalpa - Sutras . These works are still very frequent in our libraries , yet there is no doubt that ...
... fact that there was not one body of Kalpa - Sutras binding on all Brahmanic families , but that different old fami- lies had their own Kalpa - Sutras . These works are still very frequent in our libraries , yet there is no doubt that ...
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