...and of enabling the Courts to decide with certainty and despatch, to form a compilation of the Hindu laws with the best authority which could be obtained...code they have written in their own language, the Sanscrit. A translation of it is begun under the inspection of one of their body into the Persian language,...

...was concerned to codify Hindu law in such a way as to expedite the task of the courts. As he put it, It has never been the practice of this country for...parts of the province, who cheerfully undertook this work.20 In fact, eleven pundits were hired by Hastings to compile a general law code, and they worked...