the institution of the Family Council, and partially to recognise and define the position, rights, and duties of the Managing Member.
8. The Heads of Castes must be officially and judicially recognised.
When these things have been done, and the new system of administering Hindû law has been worked for some years, it will be possible, perhaps very easy, to draw up a Code of Hindû law upon the basis of the Usages and Customs,' as modified and illustrated by select decisions of the District Courts and High Court.
Into that matter I need not enter. I have completed the work originally undertaken, and will wind with the devout hope, Non si male nunc et olim sic
BORIGINES, the earliest sur-
viving, 115
Achâra (custom) the only law, 89
Âchârya, Aryan teacher, 57; title
borne by smiths, &c., 102; initia-
tion by, 147
Adhvaryus, 38, 67
Adoption, incestuous, invalid, 10 n;
a temporal arrangement, 68; by
widow, 122; Kritrima, form of,
122, 128; customs relating to, 124,
127; ceremony, object, and effect
of, 127; of daughter, 128 n, 131;
of sister's son, 133, 185; religious
idea of, 141; is a form of will,
141; of females, 141, 142; false
principle touching, 143; of daugh-
ter's or sister's son, 143 n; Kṛi-
trima, by widows, 143 n; what,
connotes, 187
Affiliating sons forbidden, 48
Amazons guarded the King, 28
Ambel-anat, marriage, 146 n
Ancestors, worship of, 145
Ândhra, dynasty, people, &c., 110;
Apastamba school
country, 62
Andhra-Drávida = Tamil, 110
Animal food in Hiouen Thsang's
time, 34
Antelope, black, land of, 41
Anuloma and Pratiloma, mixed
classes, 100
Âpastamba, holds puritan doctrines,
48; black Yajur-Veda called, 63;
school in Madras, not in Bombay,
62; authority for S. India, 62;
folk numerous in S. India, 70, 71
Apatya, meaning of, 131 n
Appointing widows forbidden, 48
'Apt equivalents,' use of, denounced,
186
Âgamas, necessity of exploring the, Arsha marriage, 28
Agnatic kinsmanship, consequences
of, 150
Agriculturists in Megasthenes' time,
Alienation by undivided member,
10n; of one's own share, 189
Aliyasantânada Kaṭṭu Kaṭṭale no
authority, 10 n
Arthasástras, meaning and authority
of, 50
Artificers, five classes of, Chapter
V.
Artisans in Megasthenes' time, 27.
See Artificers.
Arya community, law of, 4 n
Arya country, what, 31 n
Aryans, few in Madras, 4 n; nothing
in common between, and Drá-
vidas of S. India, 6; on the Indus
called Visas, 89; western, heretical
and non-Brahmanic, 91, 133;
eastern, at Páṭaliputra, 91
Aśoka, date and inscription of, 23;
grandson of Chandragupta, 26-34;
converted to Buddhism, 91; a
Jainist, 92
Atharva Veda, part of, taken from
Western Vrátyas, 91 n
Aurangzib, Dara, put to death, 75
Authority, the 'paramount.' See
Mitaxará, Hindû law, of Gurus
and others, 161, 168
BANISHMENT among the bar-
barians, 34; substituted for
capital punishment, 35 n; meaning
of, 172
Barth, opinion of, 135
Baudhâyana, tolerant doctrines of,
48; school, 63
Beena, marriage, 146 n
Benares, Bernier's notice of, 37; ad-
ministration of justice at, 164
Bhaktás, Vaishnavites, 94; same as
Jains, 94
Bhakti, faith in Vishnu, 94
Bhattas of, and respected by, the
people, 81 n
Bhoja Râjâ, 75
Bibi of Cannanore, custom of family
of, 155
Black antelope, land of, 41
Yajur Veda, schools that study,
23; constantly mentioned, 59;
foundation of Mánava-D.S.,
59;
suggested defence for, Brahman,
61; Taittirîya or Âpastamba, 63;
studied by Maîtrâyanîyas, &c., 69 ;
Manu, principal of the, authors, 71
Blue-books in Hiouen Thsang's time,
Bombay, customs of, 130
Bouchet, his letter on law, 118, 125,
127, 128
Boulnois and Rattigan, 132, 155,
158
Bramhahatya, what included in, 168
Brahman, application of name, 31
Brahmanism, power of, in Hiouen
Thsang's time, 33; dead, 137
Brahman kingdom in Hiouen
Thsang's time, 31
Brahmans, philosophers in Megas-
thenes' time, 27 n; nine classes of,
in Damathat, 31; Hiouen Thsang's
account of, 31; ignorance about,
55; practised dharma, 55; indif-
ferent about law, 83; mostly
Apastambiyas in S. India, 84; how
far do modern, approve Mîmámsá
system, 60; what are the practices
of, 87; none in S. Irdia before
seventh century, 91; six sects of,
95; precedence of low castes over,
104; usages of, do they follow
their Sakhás, 135-52; how put
to death, 172; how, govern them-
selves, 175; what books obliga-
tory on, 176, 177
Brahmarshi, what, 41
Brahmayamatham
103 n
Briggs' Ferishta, 36
Brother, elder, marriage of, to tree,
146 n
Brothers, customs amongst, 126, 132;
community amongst, 150
Buchanan, 167, 188
Buddhism, date of triumph of, 25;
in Fa Hian and Hiouen Thsang's
time, 35; extinction of, 36;
origin of, 90; Saivites connected
Buddhist clergy, ascendency of, 35 n
Buddhistic origin, of writing, 24;
of Mitáxará, 83
YALDWELL, 108
Canouj (see Kanyá-Kubja).
Capital punishment, abolished by
Aśoka, 33
Caste, in Hiouen Thsang's time, 31;
custom ascertained by the, 130
Castes, authority of, 161-72
Ceylon, laws of Tamils of, 122–26;
Beena marriage in, 146 n
Chaitanya, repudiated caste, 92
Chalukya sovereigns claimed to be
Mánava: Menu's code for their
benefit, 37 n
Chandalas, hunters, 26 n; a class of
Brahmans, 31 n; origin of term,
Chandogas studied Sâma-Veda, 62
Chandragupta, grandfather of Aśoka,
25, 32; King of the Prasi, 91; a
Jainist, 92
Charakas, school of the Adhvaryas,
67
Charana, one should attach himself
to a, 54
Charanas, object of, in composing
sûtras, 24; laws of, how far obso-
lete, 55; how formed, 58; their
mark, laws, &c., 58
Chárváka, sect, 95, 96
Chettis, claim to be Vaisyas, 98,
102
Child, belongs to tribe, 127
Children, claims of, in what case dis-
regarded, 144
Christianity, legislation against, by
Chucklers, of Mysore, have priests,
68 n
Ciladitya, the great Buddhist king,
35, 109
Civilisation of S. India, 110
Classes. See Four Classes
Codification, when to be attempted,
Cohabitation of father with son's
wife, 119; with son's widow, 119,
Colebrooke, 9, 12, 65, 66, 73, 75, 79,
83, 86, 165, 186
Communal system, village, in the
Panjâb, 133
Community, of kinsmen, 150; not
common to all Hindoos, 151; vil-
lage, an exotic in S. India, 151 n
Concubinage, very common, 148
Concubines, claims by, 149
Conjeveram, furthest point reached
by Hiouen Thsang, 31; copper-
plates at, 173
Coparcenary, idea of, 175. See Com-
munity
Courts of justice, foreign to India,
44; in native states, 161
Crimes and sins, not distinguished in
early works, 54; the most heinous,
163
Cultivator, got one fourth in Megas-
thenes' time, 26; owned the land
in Hiouen Thsang's? 34
Cunningham's Digest, 1, 3, 4
Custom, regulates everything, 2 n, 66;
cannot prevail against distinct
authority, 10 n; the only law, 87;
the guide at Poona and Khandesh,
130; how to be ascertained, 190
Customs, love of people for their, 9;
different in different countries,
46-49; what, obligatory, 52; col-
lections of, Chapter VI.; of people
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