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Shastra (Sanskrit: शास्त्र, romanized: Śāstra pronounced) is a Sanskrit word that means "precept, rules, manual, compendium, book or treatise" in a general sense. [1] The word is generally used as a suffix in the Indian literature context, for technical or specialized knowledge in a defined area of practice.
Kautilya's Arthashastra (Sanskrit: अर्थशास्त्रम्, IAST: Kautiliyam Arthaśāstram; transl. Kautilya's compendium on worldly affairs) is an ...
Shastra in Sanskrit means that which gives teaching, instruction or command. Tarka means debate or an argument. According to one reckoning, there are six shastras. Vyākaraṇa is one of them. Four of the shastras are particularly important: Vyākaraṇa, Mīmāṃsā, Tarka, and Vedanta. Tarka shastra has concepts called purva paksha and apara ...
The Dev Samaj followed the philosophy propounded by the founder in 4 religious texts named as Dev Shastra volumes 1 to 4 and on the person of its Guru, Agnihotri, who held all doctrinal authority. [10] Though initially upholding the worship of God, from 1892 Agnihotri advocated dual worship of himself and God claiming a status of near divinity ...
Similarly, only the Samāsa Saṃhitā mentions that the Varāhamihira's method of gauging rainfall is based on the Magadha system mentioned in the Artha-shastra. [6] Ajay Mitra Shastri reconstructed a part of Samāsa Saṃhitā from Utpala's commentary on the Bṛhat Saṃhitā. Shastri's edition was published in the journal Bharātīya Vidyā ...
Copy of a royal land grant, recorded on copper plate, made by Chalukya King Tribhuvana Malla Deva in 1083. The Dharmashastras are based on ancient Dharmasūtra texts, which themselves emerged from the literary tradition of the Vedas (Rig, Yajur, Sāma, and Atharva) composed in 2nd millennium BCE to the early centuries of the 1st millennium BCE.
[109] [verification needed] Swami Dayananda Saraswati, the founder of Arya Samaj, held the text to be authentic and authoritative. [110] Other admirers of the text have included Annie Besant. [111] Friedrich Nietzsche is noted to have said "Close the Bible and open the Manu Smriti. It has an affirmation of life, a triumphing agreeable sensation ...
In Ayurvedic medicine rasaśāstra (रसशास्त्र), refers to processes by which various metals, minerals and other substances, including most notably mercury, are purified and combined with herbs in an attempt to treat illnesses.