Mitakshara
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The Mitakshara is a legal treatise on inheritance, written by Vijnaneshwara a scholar in the Kalyani Chalukyan court in the 12th century. It became one of the most influential texts in Hindu law, and its principles regarding property distribution, property rights, and succession are still in practice across most of India except for West Bengal and Assam where the Dayabhaga system is practised. A salient feature is the principle of division of ancestral property held by the Hindu joint family. Partition of such landholding among offsprings is possible even with the father still living unlike the Dayabhaga syatem
The work was first translated into English by Henry Thomas Colebrooke in the early 19th century.
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