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Review Of New Publications.
, To our historical collections we hesitate not to declare that we consider the present as a . valuable addition ¦ , and it is rendered more particularly -useful b y a very Copious-Index . . It is ' also embellished with a full length Por-. tra . it of GeneralKosciusko , and illustrated by a whole sheet Map of " Poland , distinguishing the several dismemberments anterior to its final partition . Institutes of Hindu Law : or , The Ordinances r . f Menu , according to the Gloss of
Culluca . Comprising the Indian System of Ditties , lleufious and Civil . Verball y translated fromf he' original Sanscrit . With a Preface , by Sir William Jones . % vo ' . Cs . , Sewell . 1796 . IN tills work we are presented with what , in the learned world , has long been a desideratum , that complete system of duties , reli g ious and civil , and of law in all its branches , which the Hindoos firmlbelieve to have been
proy mulged , in the beginning of time , by Menu , son or grandson of Brahma , or , in plain language , the first of created beings , and not the oldest only , but the holiest of legislators ; ' a system , ' says Sir William Jones , ' so comprehensive , and so minutel y exact , ' that it may be considered as the Institutes of Hindu Law , preparatory to the copious Digest , which . has latel y been compiled by Pandits of eminent learning , and introductory , - perhaps , to a Code which may supply the many natural defects in the old jurisprudence of this country
, and , without any deviation from ils principles , accommodate it justly to the improvements or a commercial age . ' The precise period of time when the work , of which we are treating , was actually composed , cannot easily be ascertained , though indubitable proofs exist that -it is one of the oldest compositions extant . . ( It is the general opinion of the Pandits , ( we quote from the Preface ) that
Brahma taught his laws to MENU in a hundred thousand verses , which Menu explained to the primitive world , in the very words of the book now translated , where he names himself , after the manner of ancient sages , in the third person . '
Numerous glosses , or comments on Menu , were composed by the ancient Eastern philosophers ; some of which were prolix and unequal ; some concise , butobfcure ; and others erroneous . At length appeared CULLUCA BHATTA ; who , after a painful course of study , and the collection of numerous manuscripts , produced a work , ' of which ( says the learned editor ) it may , perhaps , be said very truly , that it is the shortest , yet the most luminous ; the least ostentatious , yet the most learned ; the deepest , yet the most agreeable
commentary , ever composed on any author , ancient or modern , European or Asiatic ' The text and interpretation of Culluca has , we find , been almost implicitly followed in the present publication , and his gloss is printed in Italics ; so that a reader , who chooses to pass it over as if imprinted , will have in Roman letters an exact version of the original , a verbal translation ; and , indeed , a translation , not scrupulousl y verbal , would have been highl y improper in a
work on so delicate and momentous a subjeft as private and criminal jurisprudence . . . This multifarious collection of moral and judicial laws is divided under twelve Heads or Chapters , and each Chapter into various articles or sections ; of the importance of which the following brief enumeration may serve to give our readers some idea . I . On the Creation , & c . 119 Sections . II . On Education , 249 . III . On Marriage , aX 6 . IV . On Economics , and Private Morals , z 6 o . V . On Diet ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
, To our historical collections we hesitate not to declare that we consider the present as a . valuable addition ¦ , and it is rendered more particularly -useful b y a very Copious-Index . . It is ' also embellished with a full length Por-. tra . it of GeneralKosciusko , and illustrated by a whole sheet Map of " Poland , distinguishing the several dismemberments anterior to its final partition . Institutes of Hindu Law : or , The Ordinances r . f Menu , according to the Gloss of
Culluca . Comprising the Indian System of Ditties , lleufious and Civil . Verball y translated fromf he' original Sanscrit . With a Preface , by Sir William Jones . % vo ' . Cs . , Sewell . 1796 . IN tills work we are presented with what , in the learned world , has long been a desideratum , that complete system of duties , reli g ious and civil , and of law in all its branches , which the Hindoos firmlbelieve to have been
proy mulged , in the beginning of time , by Menu , son or grandson of Brahma , or , in plain language , the first of created beings , and not the oldest only , but the holiest of legislators ; ' a system , ' says Sir William Jones , ' so comprehensive , and so minutel y exact , ' that it may be considered as the Institutes of Hindu Law , preparatory to the copious Digest , which . has latel y been compiled by Pandits of eminent learning , and introductory , - perhaps , to a Code which may supply the many natural defects in the old jurisprudence of this country
, and , without any deviation from ils principles , accommodate it justly to the improvements or a commercial age . ' The precise period of time when the work , of which we are treating , was actually composed , cannot easily be ascertained , though indubitable proofs exist that -it is one of the oldest compositions extant . . ( It is the general opinion of the Pandits , ( we quote from the Preface ) that
Brahma taught his laws to MENU in a hundred thousand verses , which Menu explained to the primitive world , in the very words of the book now translated , where he names himself , after the manner of ancient sages , in the third person . '
Numerous glosses , or comments on Menu , were composed by the ancient Eastern philosophers ; some of which were prolix and unequal ; some concise , butobfcure ; and others erroneous . At length appeared CULLUCA BHATTA ; who , after a painful course of study , and the collection of numerous manuscripts , produced a work , ' of which ( says the learned editor ) it may , perhaps , be said very truly , that it is the shortest , yet the most luminous ; the least ostentatious , yet the most learned ; the deepest , yet the most agreeable
commentary , ever composed on any author , ancient or modern , European or Asiatic ' The text and interpretation of Culluca has , we find , been almost implicitly followed in the present publication , and his gloss is printed in Italics ; so that a reader , who chooses to pass it over as if imprinted , will have in Roman letters an exact version of the original , a verbal translation ; and , indeed , a translation , not scrupulousl y verbal , would have been highl y improper in a
work on so delicate and momentous a subjeft as private and criminal jurisprudence . . . This multifarious collection of moral and judicial laws is divided under twelve Heads or Chapters , and each Chapter into various articles or sections ; of the importance of which the following brief enumeration may serve to give our readers some idea . I . On the Creation , & c . 119 Sections . II . On Education , 249 . III . On Marriage , aX 6 . IV . On Economics , and Private Morals , z 6 o . V . On Diet ,