dharmashastra
धर्मशास्त्र dharmashastraThe class of metrical smriti treatises on dharma, duty and law that grew out of the older Dharma-sutras; its most famous member is the Manusmriti.
Where this term appears
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
Part of the answer is the Dharmashastra literature, the law books, and one text above all.
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The Dharmashastras , the legal and ethical codes, are smriti, and the most famous of them is the Manusmriti itself, whose name carries the word.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
The Dharmashastra literature, above all the Manusmriti , lays out duty by caste and gender in exhaustive detail.
- The Four Aims of Life (Purusharthas) Essentials
For dharma there is the vast literature of Dharmashastra , the treatises on duty and law, of which the Manusmriti , the Laws of Manu, is the most famous and the most argued over.
- The Four Ashramas: the stages of life Essentials
…wing centuries and reaches its familiar sequential form in the Manava Dharmashastra , the Laws of Manu, a text usually dated between roughly 200 BCE and 200 CE, with Olivelle leaning toward the later end of tha…
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
V. Kane, whose History of Dharmashastra (II.1, pp.
- What is a Guru? Lineages
In the household world of Dharmashastra, the teacher of sacred learning was honoured deeply and placed, deliberately, beneath the people who gave you your body and raised it.
- What is Diksha? Lineages
He crosses a line he cannot cross by being born once. The third birth The line hardens into law in the Dharmashastra .