RESEARCH PAPERS

Hindu Law and Mimamsa Nyayas
Krishna Roy

 

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NOTES  AND  REFERENCES

    1. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, J.P. Mallory and D.G. Adams, editors, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, 1997, p.345.
    2. K.P. Jayaswal, Manu and Yajnavalkya: A comparison and a contrast, Calcutta, 1930, p.70.
    3. A.M. Bhattacharjee, Hindu Law and Constitution, Eastern Law House, Calcutta 1983, p.10 (of the Preface)
    4. Bhatta Nilakantha, The Vyavahara Mayukha, translated by P.V. Kane and S.G. Patwardhan, Pune, 1933, p.2.
    5. naste dharma manusyanam vyavahara pravartate |
      drstva sa vyavaharanam raja dandadhara smrtah ||
      Narada Smrti, quoted by K.L. Sarkar, p.496.
    6. The present author is aware of the controversy regarding the first propounder of the Mimamsa-Sutras. The prevalent view is to regard Jaimini as the author of the Mimamsa-Sutras. But there is a view that Jaimini cannot be the first formulator as his name is mentioned in several places of the Mimamsa-Sutra. Without going into this controversy, at present I am subscribing to the generally accepted view that regards Jaimini as the founder of the Mimamsa system:
    7. G. P. Bhatt, ‘Mimamsa as a Philosophical System: A Survey’ in Studies in Mimamsa edited by R. C. Dwivedi, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, 1994,p.3
    8. A. B. Keith, The Karma-Mimamsa’, Oriental Books Reprint Corporation, New Delhi, 1978, p.3
    9. Jaimini, Mimamsa-Sutras, 1.1.2
    10. Gautama, Nyaya Sutra, 2.1.64
    11. A.B. Keith, op. cit.,p.79
    12. I have taken this classification from K.L. Sarkar’s  The Mimamsa Rules of Interpretation as applied to Hindu Law, Thacker, Spink & Co. 1909, pp.69-69
    13. R.C. Hazra, ‘Dharma – Its Early Meaning and Scope’ in Our Heritage, Vol. VII, 1959, p.16
    14. P. Sastri, Introduction to the Purva Mimamsa, Calcutta, 1923, Part II.
    15. G. Jha, Purva Mimamsa in its Sources, Benaras Hindu University, Benaras, 1942, p.349
    16. P.Sastri, op cit., p.8.
    17. S. Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy, Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi, 1925, Vol. I, p.69.
    18. P.V. Kane, History of Dharmasastra, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, 1990, Vol. V, Part II, p.1284, italics mine
    19. Ibid., p.1283.
    20. Ibid., p.1283.
    21. Krishna Roy, Hermeneutics: East and West, Allied Publishers, Calcutta, 1993, p.89
    22. Jaimini, op, cit., Ch. I, Pada 3
    23. M.L. Sandal, Mimamsa Sutras of Jaimini, Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi, 1980, Vol. I, p.390.
    24. S.C. Moghe, Studies in the Purva Mimamsa, Ajanta Publishers, Delhi, 1948, p.76.
    25. Sandal, op. cit., p.80.
    26. Further details of such application of the Mimamsa maxims with legal implications can be found in K.L. Sarkar’s book, mentioned above, specially in Lecture IX.
    27. Moghe, op. cit., p.80.
    28. Sandal, op. cit., Vol. I, p.24.
    29. K.L. Sarkar, An Introductory Lecture and a Synopsis of Lectures in the Subject of the Rules of Interpretation in Hindu Law, 1904, p.62.
    30. K.L. Sarkar, op. cit., p.383.
    31. The Statesman, dated 17th July, 1998, italics mine.