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The Dāyabhāga is a Hindu law treatise written by Jīmūtavāhana which primarily focuses on inheritance procedure. The Dāyabhāga was the strongest authority in Modern British Indian courts in the Bengal region of India, although this has changed due to the passage of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 and subsequent revisions to the act. [1]
Lingat, however, is content to place the Mitākṣarā simply at the end of the eleventh century. [7] Historically, Vijñāneśvara was attempting to clarify and explain parts of the Yājñavalkya Smṛti , and he was criticizing and discussing earlier commentaries on the same text in an attempt to reconcile differences and further explain the ...
In Bengal (and post-independence West Bengal and Tripura) and Assam, Dāyabhāga was the principal guide for laws on inheritance till the enactment of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. This treatise differs in some aspects from Mitakshara , which was prevalent in other parts of India based on Yajnavalkya Smrti .
Raghunandana's Dayabhaga-tika, also known as the Dayabhaga-vyakhya[na], is a commentary on Jimutavahana's Hindu law treatise, the Dayabhaga. During the British Raj, when Hindu law was used in the courts, the Calcutta High Court termed Raghunandana's Dayabhaga-tika as the best commentary on the Dayabhaga. [6]
The Hindu calendar, also called Panchanga (Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्ग), is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes.
For the 9-day week, the first day of the week is repeated 3 times in the first week of the 210-day Pawukon. The complexity of the calendar is increased by the calculations required to determine the arrangement of the days of the 1-, 2-, and 10-day weeks, which are not ordered in simple recurring 1, 2 and 10-day cycles.
The Hindu calendar is based on a geocentric model of the Solar System. [1] A geocentric model describes the Solar System as seen by an observer on the surface of the Earth. The Hindu calendar defines nine measures of time (Sanskrit: मान IAST: māna): [2] brāhma māna; divya māna; pitraya māna; prājāpatya māna; guror māna; saura ...
Yajnavalkya’s smriti is also more precise and organized than that of Manu’s. The British also considered the Yajnavalkya Smriti the basis of what they called “the Hindu Law.” [14] The Yajnavalkya Smriti became even more well-known through a commentary written on it by Vijnaneshvara called the Mitakshara in the mid-twelfth century. [14]