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Dharmasūtras and Smritis.
About 20
Dharmasutras are known, some
surviving into the
modern era just as
fragments of
their original. Four
Dharmasūtras have...
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extant Dharmasutras texts from the
Taittiriya school of
Krishna Yajurveda, the
other two
being Baudhayana Dharmasutra and
Hiranyakesin Dharmasutra. The...
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Gautama Dharmasūtra is a
Sanskrit text and
likely one of the
oldest Hindu Dharmasutras (600-200 BCE),
whose m****cripts have
survived into the
modern age...
- the
dharmasūtras are
composed in prose. The
oldest dharmasūtra is
generally believed to have been that of Apastamba,
followed by the
dharmasūtras of Gautama...
- This
Dharmasūtra is
likely of a
later date than the
Gautama and
Baudhayana Dharmasutras that have also survived. However, like many
Dharmasutras and Dharmasastras...
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Baudhayana Dharmasūtra, in
verses 2.11.9 to 2.11.12,
describes the four
Ashramas as "a
fourfold division of Dharma". The
older Dharmasūtras, however, are...
- community. Indologically, the
ritual is
present in the Gr̥hyasūtras and
Dharmasūtras and Dharmaśāstra, as well as a
couple of
times in the Saṃhitas. Educational...
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Patrick Olivelle,
Dharmasūtras: The Law
Codes of
Ancient India, (Oxford
World classics, 1999), p. 127
Patrick Olivelle,
Dharmasūtras: The Law
Codes of...
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sutras survive and
these are now
referred to as
Dharmasutras.
Along with laws of Manu in
Dharmasutras,
exist parallel and
different compendium of laws...
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Verse CXV and
commentary at pp 232;
Apastamba Dharmasutra 2.20.18–23;
Patrick Olivelle,
Dharmasutras - The Law
Codes of
Ancient India,
Oxford University...
