The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and Other Matters December 16 1917

The first thingothaatrikes the reader whileecoing through the author's briefottline of the history of the Smriti literature of Bengal is the relative position that has beep awarded to Jimutavahana whose age is the subject-matter under discussion with respect to Sulapani another well-known writer of the Bengal School. [...] Moreover the way in which Jimutavahana has criticised the views of Srikara can hardly fit in with the theory that the latter was the teacher of the former. [...] And this leads us to the view according to which it is thought that the commentators of Jimutavahana are of bpinion that the author of the Dayabhaga often refersito and recites the doctrines of Chandesvara and Vachaspati Misra. [...] The translation of the sacrificial post and the Soma cups of the Vedic ceremonies into the wheel and the rod of the potter led to another ethereal world from which the savants of the East sought to find the true theory of light toeguide them in their doubts just as the translation of the tubes of force of Faraday into the language of mathematics by Maxwell led to the true theory of light which is [...] While discussing the true conception of grit (the characteristic of the subject of the conclusions requisite for a valid inference) Gangesha defines zmat to mean the "non-existence of determination accopanied by the absgnce of the desire to infer (3).