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UGC nod for centre on Maharishi Vignaneshwara

By T.V. Sivanandan

GULBARGA, JUNE 10. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has approved a proposal of the Gulbarga University for establishing a Maharishi Yagnavalkya Vignaneshwara Mitakshara and Human Rights study centre on the university campus.

The Vice Chancellor, V.B. Coutinho, told The Hindu that the UGC had also sanctioned Rs. 20 lakh for establishing the centre at the Department of Law. The Departments of Economy, Sociology and Sanskrit would interact as interdisciplinary subjects at the centre.

"Mitakshara," the immortal legal monograph, which is the basis for the Hindu Law and considered the "bible of Hindu law" was written by the little-known Maharishi Yagnavalkya Vignaneshwara, who was born in Masimadu in Basavakalyan taluk in Bidar district and is said to have spent most of his life in the obscure Martur village, 13 km from Gulbarga, in the 10th Century.

The centre on Mitakshara was the pet project of Prof. Coutinho, who is an eminent law teacher. He said that the proposed centre would mainly concentrate on the works of Maharishi Vignaneshwara whose "Mitakshara'', became popular in India.

Vignaneshwara, who is accepted as the legal luminary of unparalleled stature, is said to have chosen Martur for his research work on the legal jurisprudence on Hindu law in the 10th Century.

The Mitakshara is the jewel among many works of Vignaneshwara, which has solutions to all the disputes involving the Hindu undivided family.

The Mitakshara deals with all the minor points in disputes involving the Hindu joint family on the distribution of property, property rights, right of women over property, succession and other aspects and finds a solution which has been accepted by society and Indian legal jurisprudence even today. Many changes have been brought about in the solutions to many disputes in the Indian legal jurisprudence, but the solutions put forth in Mitakshara have remained untouched and stood the test of time.

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