elaborate law commentaries based on vedas, Dharmashastra themselves evolved from dharmshutra. There are many Dharmashastras, variously estimated to number from...

The Dharmashastra National Law University (DNLU) is a National Law University founded in 2018 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. As of 2021, the university...

discovered of the text never use this title, but state the title as Manava Dharmashastra (Sanskrit: मानव धर्मशास्त्र) in their colophons at the end of each chapter...

important of all the samskaras, the rites of passage described in the Dharmashastra texts. Variously defined, it is generally described to be a social institution...

Shastraic literature on Artha and other aims of human beings: of dharma in Dharmashastras, of artha in Arthashastras, of kama in Kamashastras (Kamasutra being...

including interpretation of the Vedas, etymology, grammar, astrology, dharmashastra, philosophy, and religion. These people include: Bālākī Gārgya and Gārgī...

It is dated between the 3rd and 5th century CE, and belongs to the Dharmashastra tradition. The text was composed after the Manusmriti, but like it and...

the northern Indian subcontinent in the ancient Hindu texts such as Dharmashastras and Sutras, referring to the areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and surrounding...

the Vedic sages, elaborate the topics discussed in the dharmasutras. Dharmashastras available in printed format are Angirasa smriti Atri smriti Apastambha...

kingdom and any conflicts that arose between dharmashastra and practices at the time or between dharmashastra and any secular transactions. When he took...

Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Upanishads Smriti Upavedas, Darśanas, Dharmashastras, Shastras, Agamas, Tantras, Puranas, Upapuranas, Ramayana (Ramcharitmanas...

profit and pleasure respectively - lead to social chaos. The Gautama Dharmashastra, Apastamba Dharmasutra and Yājñavalkya Smṛti, as examples, all suggest...

2015. Taneja 2000, p. 167. "From the Bookshelves of IGNCA: Texts on Dharmashastra wellspring of Indian code for life". Indira Gandhi National Centre of...

in the Āśrama Upanishad, the Vaikhanasa Dharmasutra and the later Dharmashastra, presents these as sequential stages of human life and recommends ages...

varna division is described in the Mahabharata, Puranas and in the Dharmashastra literatures. The commentary on the Varna system in the Manusmriti is...

practice is attested in epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The Dharmashastras permit a man to marry women provided that the first wife agree to marry...

contain the collected traditions. Some of the most prominent Smriti are Dharmashastras which includes Manusmriti (200BC-200CE); Yajnavalkya Smriti (200-500CE);...

Maharashtraka (Maharashtrian Brahmins) Gurjara (Gujarati) The Dharmasutra and Dharmashastra texts of Hinduism describe the expectations, duties and role of Brahmins...

social harmony, and happiness requires that people live per dharma. The Dharmashastra is a record of these guidelines and rules. The available evidence suggest...

rulers. The self proclamation was done to enforce Hindu social code Dharmashastra over his reign and refer to his country as being inhabitable for Hindus...

Institute University (NLIU) Bhopal Jabalpur Engineering College, and Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, VIT Bhopal University The state has...

to the later belief that Kubera was a man. The early texts Gautama Dharmashastra and Apastamba describe him as a man. Only the Grihyasutras of Shankhayana...

chastity (however, this also applies to heterosexual intercourse). The Dharmashastra recognises the existence of homosexuality, and openly condemning no-vaginal...

is extensively discussed in the genre of Hindu literature called the Dharmashastras. Rajadharma referred to the obligations of a king or emperor towards...

societies undergoing acculturation. The tenets of Brahmanism and of the Dharmashastras underwent a radical transformation at the hands of the Purana composers...

refers to the treatises (śāstras) of Hinduism on dharma. There are many Dharmashastras, variously estimated to be 18 to about 100, with different and conflicting...

Hinduism condemns extramarital sex as sin. According to the Hindu Dharmashastra texts, any sexual act outside of the accepted marriage, including physical...

University, Aurangabad Himachal Pradesh National Law University, Shimla Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Law University...

have been found in this script such as Vedas, Upanishads, Jyotisha, Dharmashastra, Purana and many more. Most works are in Sanskrit. However, some Kannada...

praised in the Vedas as a water goddess of purification, while in the Dharmashastras, Sarasvati is invoked to remind the reader to meditate on virtue, and...