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Excerpt from Institutes of Hindu Law, or the Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss of Cullúca: Comprising the Indian System of Duties, Religious and Civil; Verbally Translated From the Original Sanscrit; With a Preface There is certainly a ftrong refemblance, though obfcured and faded by time, between our menu with his divine Bull, whom he names as dherma himfelf, or the genius of abftraét juf'tice, and the mneues of Egypt with his companion or fymbol and, though we fhould be confiantly on our guard againft the delufion of etymological conjecture, yet we cannot but admit that minos and mneues, or Mneuis, have only Greek terminations, but that the crude noun is compofed of the fame radical letters both in Greek and in Sarjcrif, 9 That apis and mneuis, ' fays the Analy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.