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The Dharmashastra texts enumerate four sources of Dharma – the precepts in the Vedas, the tradition, the virtuous conduct of those who know the Vedas, and approval of one's conscience (Atmasantushti, self-satisfaction). [77] The Dharmashastra texts include conflicting claims on the sources of dharma.
This recension was redacted into the "Śāstric Redaction" (i.e., the text as we have it today) between 175 and 300 CE, and was a major redaction by a scholar who had a good knowledge of the Dharmashastras, bringing the Arthashastra "more in line with the mainstream of Brahmanical social ideology" [73] and the superiority of the Brahmin varna.
The literature of late 1st millennium BCE such as Arthashastra, [17] and Shastras of various fields of knowledge from the early 1st millennium period is of great interest as it helped the emergence of diverse schools and the spread of Indian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism in and outside South Asia. [3] [18] [19]
The Arthashastra can be considered to be the earliest surviving work on political philosophy from Ancient India. Its author, Chanakya, was the reputed Prime Minister of the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta and played an instrumental role in establishing what would become Ancient India's largest empire, stretching from Kabul to the Tamil country .
Simultaneously, states Olivelle, the text enumerates numerous practices such as marriages outside one's varna (see anuloma and pratiloma), such as between a Brahmin man and a Shudra woman in verses 9.149–9.157, a widow becoming pregnant by a man she is not married to in verses 9.57–9.62, marriage where a woman elopes with her lover, and ...
The Gautama Dharmashastra, Apastamba Dharmasutra and Yājñavalkya Smṛti, as examples, all suggest that dharma comes first and is more important than artha and kama. [5] Kama states the relative value of three goals as follows: artha is more important and should precede kama, while dharma is more important and should precede both kama and ...
It is dated between the 3rd and 5th century CE, and belongs to the Dharmashastra tradition. [1] The text was composed after the Manusmriti , but like it and Naradasmriti , the text was composed in shloka (poetic meter) style. [ 2 ]
The classical system, in the Āśrama Upanishad, the Vaikhanasa Dharmasutra and the later Dharmashastra, presents these as sequential stages of human life and recommends ages for entry to each stage, while in the original system presented in the early Dharmasutras the Asramas were four alternative available ways of life, neither presented as ...