User talk:SadieBean

Diacritics, Ugg!
Hey, sorry I forgot to warn you guys, there is an old style of diacritics and a new style of diacritics. In the old style, ś is ç, long vowels like ā are â, and ṛ is ŗ. Don't you just love it??!! I've been going through and correcting this on our pages, but if you catch any I missed, you can change it if you aren't already at diacritic overload! -Lotus (talk) 18:18, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

boobs In the Dharmasastras there are eighteen titles of law that are grounds for litigation and the performance of the legal process, usually by the kings and Brahmin counselors. The eighteen titles of law according to Manu are: “(i) the first is the non-payment of debts; (ii) deposits; (iii) sale without ownership; (iv) partnerships; (v) non-delivery of gifts; (vi) non-payment of wages; (vii) breach of contract; (viii) cancellation of a sale or purchase; (ix) disputes between owners and herdsman; (x) the Law on boundary disputes; (xi) verbal assault; (xii) physical assault; (xiii) theft; (xiv) violence; (xv) sexual crimes against women; (xvi) Law concerning husband and wife; (xvii) partition of inheritance; and (xviii) gambling and betting.”  These reasons vary slightly among authors, and many of them will be covered more in depth with respect to the Manu-Smrti.

Concerning the eighteen titles of law, the non-payment of debt is almost always listed first. According to Davis this is because, “A very old practice of textual organization within Dharmasastra and other textual genres of Sanskrit calls the first procedure or topic to be described the archetype (prakrti) and the subsequent procedures or topics the ectypes (vikrti). We saw this practice in the placement of the Brahmin as the archetype as a matter of textual concision. The Non-payment of Debts is the archetype for the other titles of law, not only because its description overlaps with and in some respects encompasses the contents of the other titles but also because debt as its thematic content pervades the subsequent titles. In terms of overlap, questions about witness, autonomy, competence, documentation, and contractual securities are all assumed in and carry over to discussions of the later titles.”