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The Vashistha Dharmasutra states that the desire to know Dharma is for the "sake of attaining the highest goal of man", and one who knows it and follows is the righteous one. [13] The text states that the Vedas and the traditional texts are a source of Dharma knowledge, but if these do not offer guidance or conflict, then the practices of ...
Vasishtha is the author of the seventh book of the Rigveda, [5] one of its "family books" and among the oldest layer of hymns in the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. [28] The hymns composed by Vasishtha are dedicated to Agni , Indra and other gods, but according to RN Dandekar, in a book edited by Anay Kumar Gupta, these hymns are particularly ...
Vashishta Dharmasutra is an ancient legal text, and one of the few Dharma-related treatises which has survived into the modern era. This Dharmasūtra (300–100 BCE) forms an independent text and other parts of the Kalpasūtra , that is Shrauta and Grihya-sutras are missing. [ 1 ]
Copy of a royal land grant, recorded on copper plate, made by Chalukya King Tribhuvana Malla Deva in 1083. The Dharmashastras are based on ancient Dharmasūtra texts, which themselves emerged from the literary tradition of the Vedas (Rig, Yajur, Sāma, and Atharva) composed in 2nd millennium BCE to the early centuries of the 1st millennium BCE.
Laws must also change with ages, states Āpastamba, a theory that became known as Yuga dharma in Hindu traditions. [31] 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 site was also the ritual home of the sage Vashishta, along with the Pāṇḍavas, the five brothers of the Mahābhārata. [34] Vyāsa is also mentioned in the Śankara Digvijaya. He confronts Ādi Shankara, who has written a commentary on the Brahma-Sutras, in the form of an old Brahmana, and asks for an explanation of the first Sutra ...
Vashishta responded to pleading by the Vasus by promising that seven of them would be free of earthly life within a year of being born and that only Prabhasa would pay the full penalty. The Vasus then requested the river-goddess Ganga to be their mother.
Jivas possess both substantive consciousness (dharmi-jnana) and attributive consciousness (dharma-bhuta-jnana). There are three types of jivas: Nitya: eternally free jivas who were never in samsara; Mukta: jivas previously in samsara, but now free; Baddha: jivas still in samsara (due to karma and ignorance)