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Yājñavalkya Smṛti (Yājñavalkya's Treatise on Dharma)

Yajnavalkya

About a thousand verses in three books: conduct (ācāra), legal procedure (vyavahāra) and expiation (prāyaścitta). More concise and systematic than the Laws of Manu, it gives priority to documentary evidence, describes the trial in four stages (plaint, answer, proof and verdict) and grants women broader inheritance rights. It also includes passages on medicine, embryology and yoga. With Vijñāneśvara's Mitākṣarā commentary (eleventh–twelfth century) it was the main authority of Hindu law across much of India and the basis of the "Hindu law" applied by British courts.

Yājñavalkya Smṛti (Yājñavalkya's Treatise on Dharma), de Yajnavalkya — texte intégral · The Conscious Library