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The Dharmashastra texts enumerate four sources of Dharma – the precepts in the Vedas, the tradition, the virtuous conduct of those who know the Vedas, and approval of one's conscience (Atmasantushti, self-satisfaction). [77] The Dharmashastra texts include conflicting claims on the sources of dharma.
The History of Dharmaśāstra, with a subtitle "Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law in India", is a monumental seven-volume work consisting of around 6,500 pages.
The classical system, in the Āśrama Upanishad, the Vaikhanasa Dharmasutra and the later Dharmashastra, presents these as sequential stages of human life and recommends ages for entry to each stage, while in the original system presented in the early Dharmasutras the Asramas were four alternative available ways of life, neither presented as ...
The title Manusmriti is a relatively modern term and a late innovation, probably coined because the text is in a verse form. [2] The over-fifty manuscripts discovered ...
The Dharmashastra is a record of these guidelines and rules. [86] The available evidence suggest India once had a large collection of dharma related literature (sutras, shastras); four of the sutras survive and these are now referred to as Dharmasutras. [72]
The Dharmasutra is attributed to Apastamba, the founder of a Shakha (Vedic school) of Yajurveda. [2] According to the Hindu tradition, Apastamba was the student of Baudhayana, and himself had a student named Hiranyakesin.
It is dated between the 3rd and 5th century CE, and belongs to the Dharmashastra tradition. [1] The text was composed after the Manusmriti, but like it and Naradasmriti, the text was composed in shloka (poetic meter) style. [2]
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