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Dharmaśāstra (Sanskrit: धर्मशास्त्र) are
Sanskrit Puranic Smriti texts on law and conduct, and
refer to
treatises (śāstras) on Dharma. Like Dharmasūtra...
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known as the Mānava-
Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many
legal texts and
constitutions among the many
Dharmaśāstras of Hinduism. Over fifty...
- Bombay, from 1947 to 1949. He is
known for his
magnum opus,
History of
Dharmaśāstra (1930–62), a five-volume
treatise on law in
ancient and
medieval India...
- The
History of
Dharmaśāstra, with a
subtitle "Ancient and
Medieval Religious and
Civil Law in India", is a
monumental seven-volume work
consisting of around...
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Davis (ed.), The
Oxford History of Hinduism:
Hindu Law: A New
History of
Dharmaśāstra, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, pp. 86–97, ISBN 978-0-19-100709-5,...
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Adhyaya 7,
there are four
sources of dharma: Śruti (Vedas), Smṛti (
Dharmaśāstras, Puranas), Śiṣṭa Āchāra/Sadāchara (conduct of
noble people) and finally...
- (bhashya) on the Manu Smrti, or Laws of Manu, is part of the
corpus of
Dharmaśāstra texts available to us today. It is the
oldest commentary on Manu that...
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derived from a
Dharmaśāstra named M****mriti, one of the many
treatises (śāstra) on Dharma. The British, however,
mistook the
Dharmaśāstra as
codes of law...
- of cross-class adultery, it
seems to have been
generalized by
Vishnu Dharmasastra and M****miriti. The
recommended punishments in the text also vary between...
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should honour it,
never speak ill, and
never find
fault in it. The
Dharmasastra literature,
states Patrick Olivelle,
admonishes "people not to cook for...
