Mitakshara
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the Mitakshara · one of the oldest and most authoritative of the Hindoo juridical treatises · the ‘Mitakshara’
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
A medieval Hindu legal digest, described as the most archaic authority on collateral succession and based on ancient kinship.
The Mitakshara, which is, on the whole, of more authority in India than the Daya-Bhaga, is manifestly based in the main upon the more ancient conception of kinship.
The original authorities for the very extensive body of modern rules governing the succession of collateral relatives are far less the ancient law-books than the so-called mediæval Digests, dating approximately from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, of which the most archaic is the ‘Mitakshara.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
An ancient and authoritative Hindoo legal treatise, repeatedly quoted for its definition and later restriction of Stridhan.
The definition of Stridhan, or ‘woman’s property,’ given in one of the oldest and most authoritative of the Hindoo juridical treatises, the Mitakshara, is as follows:
’ The compiler of the Mitakshara who has preserved the liberal rule as to Stridhan which I before referred to, combats this doctrine, not, however, by affirming the capacity of women for sacrifice, but by denying that all property is intended for religious uses, and by pointing out that certain acts which a female owner can do are of a quasi-religious character, e.