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Rh mar in Bengali" was published in 1267 corresponding with 1861 This work he undertook at the request of the Honb'le Drinkwater Bethune, one of the greatest well-wishers of Native education in India. These were his minor works and are now out of print. But the best cristalized product of his master mind and which could well stand comparision with a European work of the same nature was his Byabastha Durpana. It was at the suggestion of Sir James Colville in 1850, he undertook to write these two Volumes of books which will serve as an everlasting monument of his patience, perseverance, industry and legal learning. The first part of the Byabastha Durpana, containing 680 pages of royal octavo size was given out to the world in 1859. In his preface to the first edition of this volume, he acknowledges that he derived great help from the late Babu Prasunna Kumar Tagore, Mr. W. Montriou Barrister-at-Law, and Pundit Bharat Chunder Siromony, the then Professor of Hindoo Law in the Sanscrit College. The second volume of the Digest of Hindoo Law dealing with marriage, Streedhone, adoption, exclusion from inheritance and caste system, containing 983 pages was published in a subsequent year. This truly Magnum opus, this repertory of Hindoo Law which has been bequeathed to his countrymen, does not stand in need of praise at our hands. Learned jurists both of this country and of Europe have praised it in terms of the highest praise.

His next great work is his Vyabastha Chundrika containing 660 pages was published in the year 1887. It is a Digest of the Hindoo MittaKshyara law as current in the Schools of Mithila, Benares, Maharashtra, and Dravira. The first volume of this work in English, Sanskrit and Urdu was published in 1878 and the second part in a subsequent year. For the publication of this great work, the late Moharajah Komul Krishna Deb Bahadur of Sova Bazar, Calcutta, helped him