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COMMENTARIES AND DIGESTS.
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“ The (Dalapati) who go veins the empire of Nizam Shah Lectu^I
writes the Nrisiiihaprasada in order to show forth the law. L
Though the Prayogaparijata and other books are in exist-
ence, let a man versed in science look in this book too for
further information. In this wohk, the Nrisinhaprasada,
twelve Saras are proclaimed, equal to the twelve (rays of
the) sun. The Sara on sacraments is the first, the §ara
treating of daily ceremonies is the second, the Sara on
Craddhas is the third, the one recording the proper times
for ceremonies is the fourth, the fifth relates to Civil
Law,” etc. The following Saras treat of, sixth, Prdyag-
chitta, Penances ; seventh, Karmavipaka, Transmigration ;
eighth, Vrata, Religious Vows; ninth, Dana, Religious
Gifts; tenth, Canti, Propitiatory Rites ; eleventh, Tvrtha,
Places of Pilgrimage; twelfth, JJevapratislitlia, Consecra-
tion of Idols.
Todarananda’s Saukshyas furnish another instance of a
Digest which does not find a suitable place in any of the
traditional five Schools of Indian Law. An old* MS.,
written in A. D. 1581, of the first section of the Vyava-
haraSaukshya, containing the chapter on Civil Procedure and
the Law of Evidence, has recently turned up in Delhi, and
is now preserved in the Deccan College, Puna.1 The intro-
ductory remarks show that Todarananda is the same man
as Todaramalla, the able and powerful Hindu Minister of
“ the manager of the whole affairs of Neba
(or of the Neba family) ” and as the noble Daladhigyara.
Naib is a Mohammedan title, but the Neba or Naib here referred to seems
to be Mullik Naib Nizam-ool-moolk Bheiry, as Ferishta calls him, the
father of Nizam Shah, the founder of the Nizam Shah dynasty (see
Briggs’s Ferishta III. 189). If one of the subsequent Nizam Shahs was
meant, one might think e.g. of Boorhan Nizam Shah II., Bahadur Nizam
Shah, or another of the Nizam Shahs reigning towards the end of the'
16th century, and might identify the Emperor of Delhi’mentioned in this
introduction with Akbar. See Ferishta III, pp. 282-320. But the
Benares MS. is over 300 years old, the Nrisinhaprasada is quoted as an
authority in the Cudra Kamalakara about the commencement of the 17th
century, and all circumstantial evidence points to the first Nizam Shah
as being the person here meant. His father was by descent a Brahman,
and it is no matter of surprise, therefore, to l?nd a learned Brahman
minister in his service. As regards the word Daladhlgvara,it is synonymous
with ©alapati, which is the author’s name as given in the colophons.
Dalapati (Dalavay in South Indian inscriptions) usually is a title,
especially in Bengal, but it occurs as the proper name of a king of ,
Gadha in Jubbujpore in an old Sanskrit inscription. See F. E. Hall in the
Journal of the A. 0. S. VII. pp. 1-23.
1 MSS. of the Achara, Prayagchitta, Cuddhi and several other San-
khyas of Todarananda exist in the Maharaja of Bikaner’s Library.
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“ The (Dalapati) who go veins the empire of Nizam Shah Lectu^I
writes the Nrisiiihaprasada in order to show forth the law. L
Though the Prayogaparijata and other books are in exist-
ence, let a man versed in science look in this book too for
further information. In this wohk, the Nrisinhaprasada,
twelve Saras are proclaimed, equal to the twelve (rays of
the) sun. The Sara on sacraments is the first, the §ara
treating of daily ceremonies is the second, the Sara on
Craddhas is the third, the one recording the proper times
for ceremonies is the fourth, the fifth relates to Civil
Law,” etc. The following Saras treat of, sixth, Prdyag-
chitta, Penances ; seventh, Karmavipaka, Transmigration ;
eighth, Vrata, Religious Vows; ninth, Dana, Religious
Gifts; tenth, Canti, Propitiatory Rites ; eleventh, Tvrtha,
Places of Pilgrimage; twelfth, JJevapratislitlia, Consecra-
tion of Idols.
Todarananda’s Saukshyas furnish another instance of a
Digest which does not find a suitable place in any of the
traditional five Schools of Indian Law. An old* MS.,
written in A. D. 1581, of the first section of the Vyava-
haraSaukshya, containing the chapter on Civil Procedure and
the Law of Evidence, has recently turned up in Delhi, and
is now preserved in the Deccan College, Puna.1 The intro-
ductory remarks show that Todarananda is the same man
as Todaramalla, the able and powerful Hindu Minister of
“ the manager of the whole affairs of Neba
(or of the Neba family) ” and as the noble Daladhigyara.
Naib is a Mohammedan title, but the Neba or Naib here referred to seems
to be Mullik Naib Nizam-ool-moolk Bheiry, as Ferishta calls him, the
father of Nizam Shah, the founder of the Nizam Shah dynasty (see
Briggs’s Ferishta III. 189). If one of the subsequent Nizam Shahs was
meant, one might think e.g. of Boorhan Nizam Shah II., Bahadur Nizam
Shah, or another of the Nizam Shahs reigning towards the end of the'
16th century, and might identify the Emperor of Delhi’mentioned in this
introduction with Akbar. See Ferishta III, pp. 282-320. But the
Benares MS. is over 300 years old, the Nrisinhaprasada is quoted as an
authority in the Cudra Kamalakara about the commencement of the 17th
century, and all circumstantial evidence points to the first Nizam Shah
as being the person here meant. His father was by descent a Brahman,
and it is no matter of surprise, therefore, to l?nd a learned Brahman
minister in his service. As regards the word Daladhlgvara,it is synonymous
with ©alapati, which is the author’s name as given in the colophons.
Dalapati (Dalavay in South Indian inscriptions) usually is a title,
especially in Bengal, but it occurs as the proper name of a king of ,
Gadha in Jubbujpore in an old Sanskrit inscription. See F. E. Hall in the
Journal of the A. 0. S. VII. pp. 1-23.
1 MSS. of the Achara, Prayagchitta, Cuddhi and several other San-
khyas of Todarananda exist in the Maharaja of Bikaner’s Library.