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NÂRADA.
continuously. There the ninth chapter is headed,
Judicial Procedure.' There Narada, the divine sage, composed an Introduction in the Satra style, as follows. It begins with the following sloka.
of Manu, each chapter would have contained about 1000 slokas. The Narada-smriti actually has about 1000 slokas. In the Code of Manu, forensic law is treated in the eighth and ninth chapters. The compiler of the present work declares his composition to be the ninth chapter of Narada's abridged version of the Code of Manu. In the above enumeration of twenty-four subjects treated in the original Code of Maru, judicial procedure is introduced as the seventh and eighth subject. This coincidence indeed might be accidental.
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