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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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
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.
Olivelle states that Book One and the first sixteen chapters of Book Two are the 'Proto-Baudhayana' [4] even though this section has undergone alteration. Scholars like Bühler and Kane agree that the last two books of the Dharmasūtra are later additions. Chapter 17 and 18 in Book Two lays emphasis on various types of ascetics and acetic ...
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)
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The name Vasistha in the title of the text refers to Rishi Vasistha. [13] The term Yoga in the text refers to the underlying Yogic theme in its stories and dialogues, and the term is used in a generic sense to include all forms of yoga in the pursuit of liberation, in the style of Bhagavad Gita.