Henry Thomas Colebrooke
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Henry Thomas Colebrooke FRS FRSE FLS was an English orientalist and botanist. He has been described as "the first great Sanskrit scholar in Europe".
A bust of Henry Thomas Colebrooke currently owned by the Royal Asiatic Society
Mitākṣarā
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The Mitākṣarā is a vivṛti on the Yajnavalkya Smriti best known for its theory of "inheritance by birth." It was written by Vijñāneśvara, a scholar in the Kalyani Chalukya court in the late eleventh ce
Manuscript of the Mitākṣarā, c. 18th century CE