Saw the book, History of Dharmasatras by Kane..
It is a huge creation in seven or eight volumes( five volumes with some volumes divided into parts..varying according to the edition) each running to an average seven hundred pages..
Could not manage even to read more than fifty pages of the first volume..
But I was simply dumb folded..
The author has read and digested all the major texts on Vedas, Upanishads and Dharmasastras and the commentaries thereon.. and has referred even to the contemporaneous articles on various subjects of the period in which it was written (1920s to 1940s).. and has added indexes to include views based on articles published after the book went to press..
What a dedication..What an erudition.. What a tenacity..
The author was an eminent scholar and a great jurist.. and authority in HIndu law..
Those are the lives which have really meaning.
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