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Wareru Dhammathat

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The Wareru Dhammathat is one of the oldest surviving dhammathats, or law texts, of Myanmar. It was compiled in the 1290s in the Mon language at the behest of King Wareru of Martaban. Modeled after the Hindu legal treatise Manusmriti, it sets out mostly customary Burmese law from the Pagan era, though it carries less than five percent of the actual content of the Manusmriti. 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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Medieval / Pre-1500 1
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Historical / No Longer in Force 1
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1. Wareru Dhammathat (Wikipedia)
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    The Wareru Dhammathat (Burmese: ဝါရီရူး ဓမ္မသတ်, pronounced [wàɹíjú dəməθaʔ]; also known as Wagaru Dhammathat or Code of Wareru) is one of the oldest extant dhammathats (legal treatises) of Myanmar (Burma).
  • Lead section, legal-status
    It was compiled in the 1290s in Mon at the behest of King Wareru of Martaban.
  • Lead paragraph
    It was compiled in the 1290s in Mon at the behest of King Wareru of Martaban.
  • In Legal System: Law of Myanmar, Wikipedia lead paragraph
    one of the oldest extant dhammathats (legal treatises) of Myanmar (Burma). It was compiled in the 1290s in Mon at t
  • In Group: Southeast and South Asian Law Codes, Introduction, sentence 1
    The Wareru Dhammathat (Burmese: ဝါရီရူး ဓမ္မသတ်, pronounced [wàɹíjú dəməθaʔ]; also known as Wagaru Dhammathat or Code of Wareru) is one of the oldest extant dhammathats (legal treatises) of Myanmar (Burma).
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