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  2. Dharmaśāstra - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Shastra - Wikipedia

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    There are many Dharmashastras, variously estimated to be 18 to about 100, with different and conflicting points of view. [27] [note 1] Each of these texts exist in many different versions, and each is rooted in Dharmasutra texts dated to 1st millennium BCE that emerged from Kalpa (Vedanga) studies in the Vedic era. [29] [30] Kamashastra (Kama ...

  4. Apastamba Dharmasutra - Wikipedia

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    Olivelle states that the three Taittiriya school Dharmasutras mention practices of north and south, but never clarify how far north or south they are referring to, but placing Dharmasutras in the southern Indian peninsula implies that Brahmanical ideas had established themselves or emerged in the south by the 1st millennium BCE. [8]

  5. Gautama Dharmasutra - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Dharma - Wikipedia

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    Dharma (/ ˈ d ɑːr m ə /; Sanskrit: धर्म, pronounced ⓘ) is a key concept in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. [7] The term dharma is held as an untranslatable into English (or other European languages); it is understood to refer to behaviours which are in harmony with the "order and custom" that sustains life; "virtue", righteousness or "religious ...

  7. Vashistha Dharmasutra - Wikipedia

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    The Vashistha Dharmasutra is one of the few surviving ancient Sanskrit Dharmasutras of Hinduism. [1] It is reverentially named after a Rigvedic sage Vashistha who lived in the 2nd millennium BCE, but the text was probably composed by unknown authors between 300 BCE – 100 CE.

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    Ryan Reynolds' Canadian citizenship just leveled up.. On Wednesday, Dec. 18, Governor General of Canada Mary Simon announced the list of 88 new appointees to the Order of Canada, which this year ...

  9. History of Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    The Puranas helped establish a religious mainstream among the pre-literate tribal societies undergoing acculturation. The tenets of Brahmanism and of the Dharmashastras underwent a radical transformation at the hands of the Purana composers, resulting in the rise of a mainstream "Hinduism" that overshadowed all earlier traditions. [40]