The Gentoo Code, formally titled A Code of Gentoo Laws, or Ordinations of the Pundits, is an English translation, by the British East India Company grammarian Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, of a Persian rendering of a Sanskrit digest of Hindu law, the Vivadarnavasetu, compiled in twenty one sections for Governor-General Warren Hastings by Hindu pandits as a means of consolidating Company control over the Indian subcontinent. Concerned chiefly with the Hindu law of inheritance, it was first privately printed by the East India Company in London in 1776, followed by further English editions and French and German translations by 1778. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Gentoo Code (also known as A Code of Gentoo Laws or Ordinations of the Pundits) is a legal code translated from Sanskrit (in which it was known as vivādārṇavasetu) into Persian by Brahmin scholars; and then from Persian into English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian working for the East India Company.
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It was printed privately by the East India Company in London in 1776 under the title A Code of Gentoo Laws, or, Ordinations of the Pundits.
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The Gentoo Code (also known as A Code of Gentoo Laws or Ordinations of the Pundits) is a legal code translated from Sanskrit (in which it was known as vivādārṇavasetu) into Persian by Brahmin scholars; and then from Persian into English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian working for the East India Company.
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