Vijñāneśvara
Sign in to saveVijnaneshwara was a prominent jurist of the first millennium CE India. His treatise, the Mitakshara, dealt with inheritance, and is one of the most influential legal treatises in Hindu law. Mitakshara is the treatise on Yājñavalkya Smṛti, named after a sage of the same name.
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- Mitākṣarā Vyavahārādhyāyaḥ
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Vijnaneshwara was a prominent jurist of the first millennium CE India. His treatise, the Mitakshara, dealt with inheritance, and is one of the most influential legal treatises in Hindu law. Mitakshara is the treatise on Yājñavalkya Smṛti, named after a sage of the same name.
Vijnaneshwara was born in the village of Masimadu, near Basavakalyan in Karnataka.
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