THE

WORKS

OF

SIR WILLIAM JONES.

WITH

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY

LORD TEIGNMOUTH.

IN THIRTEEN VOLUMES

VOLUME VII.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY;
AND JOHN WALKER, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

CONTENTS

ΤΟ

THE SEVENTH VOLUME.

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CHARGE to the Grand Jury, at Calcutta, December

4, 1783

Charge to the Grand Jury, at Calcutta, June 10, 1785

Charge to the Grand Jury, at Calcutta, June 10, 1787

Charge to the Grand Jury, at Calcutta, December 4,

1788

Charge to the Grand Jury, at Calcutta, June 10, 1790

Charge to the Grand Jury, at Calcutta, June 9, 1792

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INSTITUTES OF HINDU LAW; OR, THE ORDI-

NANCES OF MENU, ACCORDING TO THE

GLOSS OF CALLU'CA.

The Preface

75

CHAP. I.-On the Creation; with a Summary of the

Contents

93

CHAP. II.-On Education; or, on the First Order

CHAP. III.-On Marriage; or, on the Second Order

CHAP. IV.-On Economicks, and Private Morals

CHAP. V.-On Diet, Purification, and Women

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CHAP. VI.-On Devotion; or, on the Third and

Fourth Orders

274

CHAP. VII.-On Government; or, on the Military

Class

292

CHAP. VIII.-On Judicature; and on Law, Private

and Criminal

331

CHARGE

TO THE

GRAND JURY,

AT CALCUTTA, DECEMBER 4, 1783.

GENTLEMEN OF THE GRAND JURY,

IT might perhaps be fufficient, if my addrefs to you this day were confined to fome fhort remarks on thofe offences, of which the prifoners named in the calendar are accused; but fuch is the particularity of my own fituation, that I cannot help feeling an inclination to take a wider range. Six years have elapfed, fince the feat, which I have now the honour to fill, became vacant; and, in that interval, fo many important events have happened in India, and fo many interesting debates have been held in the parliament of Britain, on the powers and objects of this judicature, that I may naturally be expected to touch at least, though not to enlarge,