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The resulting codification of Hindu law by the British authorities in their attempt to create a homogeneous, uniform & consistent legal corpus was characterised by increasing importance of the authority of 'canonical' scripture over tradition (derived from secondary texts like commentaries & digests) & unrecorded customary law in vogue amongst ...
Digestorum, seu Pandectarum libri quinquaginta. Lugduni apud Gulielmu[m] Rouillium, 1581.Biblioteca Comunale "Renato Fucini" di Empoli. The Digest (Latin: Digesta), also known as the Pandects (Pandectae; Ancient Greek: Πανδέκται, Pandéktai, "All-Containing"), was a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in 530 ...
The full title of the Digest was Digestorum seu Pandectarum tomus alter, and it was published by Carolus Guillardus. Vol. 1 of the Digest has 2934 pages, while vol. 2 has 2754 pages. Referring to Justinian's Code as Corpus Juris Civilis was only adopted in the 16th century, when it was printed in 1583 by Dionysius Gothofredus under this title.
This is an outline of commentaries and commentators.Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which provide the foundation for later commentary.
Justinian's Institutes was one part of his effort to codify Roman law and to reform legal education, of which the Digest also was a part. [2] Whereas the Digest was to be used by advanced law students, Justinian's Institutes was to be a textbook for new students. [3]
The Swaminarayan Bhashyam (Svāminārāyaṇabhāṣyam) is a five-volume Sanskrit bhashya, or commentary, on the Prasthanatrayi (Prasthānatrayī) - the ten principal Upanishads (Upaniṣads), the Bhagavad Gita (Bhagavadgītā), and the Brahmasutras (Brahmasūtras) - which establishes the principles taught by Swaminarayan as perceived by the BAPS.
The extensive Bhasyas (reviews and commentaries on Shrutis and non-Shruti texts), [1] The sutras and shastras of the various schools of Hindu philosophy [25] The numerous Nibandhas (digests) covering politics, medicine (Charaka Samhita), ethics (Nitisastras), [8] culture, arts and society. [1]
Commentaries to ancient Tamil works have been written since the medieval period and continue to be written in the modern era. [15]: 21 The exegesis to the work Iraiyanar Kalaviyal is considered the first commentary in the Tamil literary tradition, [15]: 10 which is the first prosaic commentary to a composition in verse.