Ganganatha Jha multi-volumed “Manusmrti”, originally published by the University of Calcutta between 1920 and 1929. Is, as indicated by its subtitle “The Law of Manu with the Bhasya of Medhatithi” mainly an edition and translation of the mula text together with the ‘explanation’ of its most celebrated commentators, Medhatithi’s Manubhasya has justly been characterized by one of the leading scholars on Dharmasastra, J.Duncan M. Derrett, as “a large repertory of opinion on the meaning of the smrti and on some fundamental question of dharma and law”