Abstract
Phrathammasāt, the first book of the Law of the Three Seals, enumerates 29 titles or types of lawsuits under the Pali name of ‘Ekūnatiṁsā Mūlagati Vivāda’, the authority of which is ascribed to the feat of Manu, discoverer of the eternal law of mankind. Compared with the Burmese law books, which, at least nominally, retain the traditional 18 titles, this seems to indicate an advanced stage of ‘Pali-ization’ of law in Theravāda Buddhist Asia, where the adopted Hindu law were transformed in a variety of ways.
