Manusmriti
The classical law-text; its account of the five daily sacrifices frames the logic of domestic worship.
A quick reference entry. For the full account, follow the guides below.
Appears in
- The Law of Manu Treatise
Onto it, before a crowd of men and women the higher castes had refused the right to drink from a public tank, a copy of the Manusmriti (the Law-Book of Manu) was placed and burned.
- 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.
- What is Puja? Worship
…ced in the Taittiriya Aranyaka and set out for the householder in the Manusmriti (3.69-71, Bühler's translation in Sacred Books of the East vol.
- What is Sanatana Dharma? Essentials
It closes a verse in the Manusmriti , the law book, after an instruction on speaking the truth kindly.
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
The Manusmriti , the "Laws of Manu," composed sometime between roughly the second century BCE and the third century CE, sets out an elaborate, birth-based ranking of the varnas, with detailed and often harsh ru…
- The anatomy of a deed Treatise
It is the Manusmriti , the Laws of Manu , a dharma digest whose account of caste a later chapter of this treatise will have to confront directly and without flinching.
- Does karma justify caste? Treatise
The second body is the Dharmashastra , the law literature, and above all the Manusmriti , which the treatise flagged as troubling when it drew on the same text's account of the three doors of action.
- The six acts Treatise
The *ṣaṭkarma*, the six acts, is the grid the Sanskrit mantric compendia use to sort magical ritual, and it does not organise the Śābara corpus. In the few pages…
- Why is Om chanted at the start and end of prayers and yoga? Journal
The Manusmriti , the ancient treatise on dharma, lays down the etiquette of study.
- Who was allowed to learn Sanskrit? Journal
In the Dharmashastra texts, Vedic learning is restricted to men of the three twice-born varnas, entered through the upanayana initiation, with Shudras and women…