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- Dharmaśāstra (Sanskrit: धर्मशास्त्र) are Sanskrit Puranic Smriti texts on law and conduct, and refer to treatises (śāstras) on Dharma. Like Dharmasūtra...
- known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many Dharmaśāstras of Hinduism. Over fifty...
- Bombay, from 1947 to 1949. He is known for his magnum opus, History of Dharmaśāstra (1930–62), a five-volume treatise on law in ancient and medieval India...
- Davis (ed.), The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law: A New History of Dharmaśāstra, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 86–97, ISBN 978-0-19-100709-5,...
- 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...
- Adhyaya 7, there are four sources of dharma: Śruti (Vedas), Smṛti (Dharmaśāstras, Puranas), Śiṣṭa Āchāra/Sadāchara (conduct of noble people) and finally...
- should honour it, never speak ill, and never find fault in it. The Dharmasastra literature, states Patrick Olivelle, admonishes "people not to cook for...
- known as the Laws of Manu. The M****mṛti text is a part of the Hindu Dharmaśāstra tradition, which attempts to record the laws of dharma. There is some...
- inscriptions and in the puranas, were taken as quotations from now nonextant dharmaśāstras. According to Winternitz, the text which has come down to us in m****cript...
- Rocher (1985). "The Kāmasūtra: Vātsyāyana's Attitude toward Dharma and Dharmaśāstra". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 105 (3): 521–29. doi:10.2307/601526...