Sankarasmiriti

Contents: 1. Customs and Manners of Kerala 2. Kerala and Parasurama tradition 3. Brahmin performance 4. Bhargavasmriti 5. A non existent text 6. Sankarasmriti alias laghudharmaprakasika 7. Authorship of Sankara smriti 8. Internal evidence 9. Brief contents of Laghudharmaprakasika 10. Arrangements of the text 11. Smriti literature 12. Critical apparatus 13. Sanskrit text 14. Translation of the text with explanations.
Sankara Smriti alias Laghudharmaprakasika is a 14th century text dealing with the social religion and cultural customs peculiar to Kerala. In 12 chapters each divided in 4 padas (section) it deals into many peculiar items on dharmasastras such as origin of the varnas and their duties, types of marriages, rules for smearing ashes, the sixteen customary rites, matrilineal systems, smartavicara (examination of girls with suspected adultery with detailed proceedings), duties of various casts, pollution of different kinds, the 64 anacaras, extraordinary customs peculiar to Kerala etc. The text contains 1376 stanzas and is critically edited using 10 palm leaf manuscripts. It is printed in roman script with English translation, explanatory notes bibliography, glossary, index of half verses.