06-21-2012, 03:17 PM
[url="http://archive.org/download/codeofgentoolaws00halh/codeofgentoolaws00halh_bw.pdf"]A Code of Gentoo laws, or, Ordinations of the pundits : from a Persian translation, made from the original, written in the Shanscrit language (printed in the year 1776)[/url]
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentoo_Code"]The Gentoo Code-WIKIPEDIA[/url]
The Gentoo Code is a legal code translated from Sanskrit (in which it was known as vivÃÂdÃÂrá¹â¡avasetu) to Persian by Brahmin scholars and then from Persian to English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian working for the East India Company. The translation was explicitly funded and encouraged by Warren Hastings as a method of increasing the colonial hold over the Indies.
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentoo_Code"]The Gentoo Code-WIKIPEDIA[/url]
The Gentoo Code is a legal code translated from Sanskrit (in which it was known as vivÃÂdÃÂrá¹â¡avasetu) to Persian by Brahmin scholars and then from Persian to English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian working for the East India Company. The translation was explicitly funded and encouraged by Warren Hastings as a method of increasing the colonial hold over the Indies.