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Nārada Smṛti (Nārada’s Treatise on Law)

नारदस्मृति

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The only treatise on dharma devoted entirely to procedural and substantive law, without rules on rites or penances. After an introduction on procedure (the plaint, the answer, evidence, witnesses, documents and ordeals), it sets out the eighteen titles of litigation: debts, deposits, partnerships, resumption of gifts, service, wages, sale without ownership, non-delivery and rescission of purchase, conventions, boundary disputes, relations between husband and wife, inheritance, violence, verbal and physical assault, gambling and betting, and miscellaneous cases. It survives in two recensions; the shorter was commented on by Asahāya and revised by Kalyāṇabhaṭṭa.

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Authorship note

Ascribed to Nārada by its preface, which presents it as an abridgement of a primordial code of Manu. Scholars regard it as the work of an anonymous jurist who took shelter under the sage’s name; its date ranges from the first centuries CE to the 5th–6th centuries (Olivelle).

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Nāradasmṛti — Narada

    The Nāradasmṛti

    Motilal Banarsidass, 2003

    Translation: Richard W. Lariviere

    ISBN 9788120818040

  • Nāradasmṛti

    Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2002

    Translation: Sunanda Y. Shastri

    ISBN 9788186050941

  • The Nāradasmṛti (critical edition and translation), 2 partes

    Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1989

    Translation: Richard W. Lariviere

    ISBN 9780936115047

    Otros ISBN de la misma edición en Open Library: 9780936115054, 9780936115061.

  • The Minor Law-Books, Part I: Nârada, Brihaspati (Sacred Books of the East 33)

    Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1889

    Translation: Julius Jolly

    Dominio público. Reimpresión de Motilal Banarsidass, 1969.

Русский

  • Дхармашастра Нарады (Dkharmashastra Narady)

    Vostochnaya literatura RAN (Moscú), 1998

    Translation: A. A. Vigasin y A. M. Samozvantsev

    ISBN 9785020180253

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  • नारदस्मृतिः (texto en Wikisource)

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Sources

  • Lariviere, Richard W. (ed. y trad.). The Nāradasmṛti. 2 partes. Filadelfia: Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1989 (University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia 4–5); reimpr. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2003 (ISBN 9788120818040).

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