Vyavahāramālā is a treatise in Sanskrit on jurisprudence and legal practices composed by some scholar from Kerala sometime during the 16th-17th centuries CE.
This was the standard reference for legal practices in the kingly courts of the erstwhile kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin till the adoption of modern legal practices under the supervision and guidance of John Munro (1778 – 1858) who had served as Resident and Diwan of the States of Travancore and Cochin between 1810 and 1819.
[2] Vyavahāramālā is a digest of rules on legal procedure extracted from the well-known ancient Smṛti called Parāśarasmṛiti.
[2] It is a work consisting of 1234 verses and the main part is divided into 19 chapters called prakaraṇa-s. Before starting the prakaraṇa-s, the author has dealt with some general requirements of legal procedures like qualities of the judge, the layout of the court, etc.
[5] The following list of topics discussed in Vyavahāramāla indicates the nature of the contents in the work.