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The Dharmasastras are derivative works on the Dharmasutras, using a shloka (four 8-syllable verse style chandas poetry, Anushtubh meter), which are relatively clearer. [ 19 ] [ 4 ] The Dharmasutras can be called the guidebooks of dharma as they contain guidelines for individual and social behavior, ethical norms, as well as personal, civil and ...
Biography (Chapter 2.2) (German site, biography in English) Kane's chronology of Dharmasastra literature (At the bottom of the article) (German site, chronology in English) Scanned volumes at archive.org: Volume 1 Part 1, 1st edition, 1930; Volume 1 Part 2, 2nd edition, 1975; Volume 2 Part 1, 1st edition, 1941; Volume 2 Part 2, 1st edition, 1941
Āpastamba also asserts in verses 2.29.11-15 a broad minded and liberal view, states Olivelle, that "aspects of dharma not taught in Dharmasastras can be learned from women and people of all classes". [32] The Apastamba Dharmasutra also recognizes property rights of women, and her ability to inherit wealth from her parents. [33]
9 Comparison with other dharmasastras. 10 ... Manusmriti became one of the first Sanskrit texts to be translated into English, ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...
Gautama Dharmasūtra is a Sanskrit text and likely one of the oldest Hindu Dharmasutras (600-200 BCE), whose manuscripts have survived into the modern age. [1] [2] [3]The Gautama Dharmasutra was composed and survives as an independent treatise, [4] unattached to a complete Kalpa-sūtras, but like all Dharmasutras it may have been part of one whose Shrauta- and Grihya-sutras have been lost to ...
Naradasmriti was an authoritative document not only in Indian subcontinent, as well as when Hinduism flourished in southeast Asia. A 12th-century inscription in Champa empire of Jaya Harivarman, in what is now modern Vietnam, declares that its court officials were "expert in all dharmasastras, especially Naradiya and Bhargaviya". [3] [9]
Ludo Rocher states that this treatise, like others in Dharmasastras genre, is a scholarly tradition on Dharma rather than a Law book, as understood in the western languages. [12] In contrast, Robert Lingat states that the text is closer to presenting legal philosophy and a transition from being Dharma speculations found in earlier Dharma ...
The Dharmasastras list many types of Prāyaścitta or penance. These include: Abhiśasta (public confession): a person visits homes as a beggar, seeks forgiveness, confesses his crime and asks for food. [29] Anutāpa (repentance): a person loathes the evil he did, reminds and repeats to himself "I shall not do that again". [30]