File:1407 CE, Manava-nyaya-sastra-tika Hindu law text and commentary, palm leaf manuscript, Sanskrit, Bhujimol script, Malla kingdom.jpg

English: This is the manuscript of a Dharmasastra text on legal matters in the Malla Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas. It is predominantly based on the Naradasmriti (not Manusmriti), and the different title reflects that is a tika (commentary) on the primary dharmasastra text. The language is Sanskrit, but the script is a Nepalese variant found in the history of Newar people. According to the Indologist Richard Lariviere, it is likely that the Naradasmriti was the legal text adopted and implemented by the Malla kings in their region, rather than one of the many other dharmasastra texts.

Cecil Bendall purchased this manuscript in April 1876 somewhere in Western or Northern India, per archival notes. The manuscript is now archived and preserved as MS Add.2137 at the Cambridge University LIbrary.

Language: Sanskrit

Script: Bhujimol (some of the 113 leaf folios have Nepalaksara numerals on the edges)

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