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धर्मशास्त्र) are <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> Puranic Smriti texts on law and conduct, and refer to treatises (<a href="/wiki/Shastras" class="mw-redirect" title="Shastras">śāstras</a>) on <a href="/wiki/Dharma" title="Dharma">Dharma</a>. Like Dharmasūtra which are based upon <a href="/wiki/Vedas" title="Vedas">Vedas</a>, these texts are also elaborate law commentaries based on vedas, Dharmashastra themselves evolved from dharmshutra. There are many Dharmashastras, variously estimated to number from 18 to over 100.<a href="#cite_note-2">[note 1]</a> Each of these texts exists in many different versions, and each is rooted in Dharmasutra texts dated to the 1st millennium BCE that emerged from <a href="/wiki/Kalpa_(Vedanga)" title="Kalpa (Vedanga)">Kalpa (Vedanga)</a> studies in the Vedic era.<a href="#cite_note-3">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiii–xxv-4">[3]</a> The textual corpus of Dharmaśāstra were composed in poetic verse,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197373-5">[4]</a> and are part of the Hindu <a href="/wiki/Smriti" class="mw-redirect" title="Smriti">Smritis</a>,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006173,_175–176,_183-6">[5]</a> constituting divergent commentaries and treatises on ethics particularly duties, and responsibilities to oneself and family as well as those required as a member of society.<a href="#cite_note-7">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[7]</a> The texts include discussion of <a href="/wiki/Ashrama_(stage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashrama (stage)">ashrama</a> (stages of life), <a href="/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)" title="Varna (Hinduism)">varna</a> (social classes), <a href="/wiki/Puru%E1%B9%A3%C4%81rtha" title="Puruṣārtha">purushartha</a> (proper goals of life), personal virtues and duties such as <a href="/wiki/Ahimsa" title="Ahimsa">ahimsa</a> (non-violence) against all living beings, rules of <a href="/wiki/Just_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Just war">just war</a>, and other topics.<a href="#cite_note-9">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[10]</a> Dharmaśāstra became influential in modern <a href="/wiki/Colonial_India" title="Colonial India">colonial India</a> history, when they were formulated by early <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British</a> colonial administrators to be the <a href="/wiki/Hindu_law" title="Hindu law">law of the land for all non-Muslims</a> (Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs) in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a>, after <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Sharia</a> set by Emperor <a href="/wiki/Aurangzeb" title="Aurangzeb">Aurangzeb</a>, was already accepted as the law for Muslims in colonial India.<a href="#cite_note-12">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-J._Duncan_M._Derrett_1961_pp.10-13">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-Werner_Menski_2003-14">[13]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Copper_plate_Malla.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Copper_plate_Malla.jpg/200px-Copper_plate_Malla.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Copper_plate_Malla.jpg/300px-Copper_plate_Malla.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Copper_plate_Malla.jpg/400px-Copper_plate_Malla.jpg 2x" data-file-width="804" data-file-height="1336" /></a><figcaption>Copy of a royal land grant, recorded on copper plate, made by <a href="/wiki/Chalukya" class="mw-redirect" title="Chalukya">Chalukya</a> King Tribhuvana Malla Deva in 1083</figcaption></figure> The Dharmashastras are based on ancient <a href="/wiki/Dharmas%C5%ABtras" class="mw-redirect" title="Dharmasūtras">Dharmasūtra</a> 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. These Vedic branches split into various other schools (shakhas) possibly for a variety of reasons such as geography, specialization and disputes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxii-15">[14]</a> Each Veda is further divided into two categories namely the Saṃhitā which is a collection of <a href="/wiki/Mantra" title="Mantra">mantra</a> verses and the <a href="/wiki/Brahmana" title="Brahmana">Brahmanas</a> which are prose texts that explain the meaning of the Samhita verses.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-16">[15]</a> The Brāhmaṇa layer expanded and some of the newer esoteric layers of text that explore the hidden meanings behind Vedic rituals were called <a href="/wiki/Aranyaka" title="Aranyaka">Aranyakas</a> while the philosophical sections came to be called the <a href="/wiki/Upanishad" class="mw-redirect" title="Upanishad">Upanishads</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-16">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat19737–8-17">[16]</a> The Vedic basis of Dharma literature is found in the Brahmana layer of the Vedas.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-16">[15]</a> Towards the end of the Vedic period, after the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, the language of the Vedic texts composed centuries earlier grew too archaic to the people of that time. This led to the formation of Vedic Supplements called the <a href="/wiki/Vedanga" title="Vedanga">Vedangas</a> which literally means 'limbs of the Veda'.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-16">[15]</a> The Vedangas were ancillary sciences that focused on understanding and interpreting the Vedas composed many centuries earlier, and included <a href="/wiki/Shiksha" title="Shiksha">Shiksha</a> (phonetics, syllable), <a href="/wiki/Chandas" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandas">Chandas</a> (poetic metre), <a href="/wiki/Vyakarana" class="mw-redirect" title="Vyakarana">Vyakarana</a> (grammar, linguistics), <a href="/wiki/Nirukta" title="Nirukta">Nirukta</a> (etymology, glossary), <a href="/wiki/Jyotisha" class="mw-redirect" title="Jyotisha">Jyotisha</a> (timekeeping, astronomy), and <a href="/wiki/Kalpa_(Vedanga)" title="Kalpa (Vedanga)">Kalpa</a> (ritual or proper procedures). The Kalpa Vedanga studies gave rise to the Dharma-sutras, which later expanded into Dharma-shastras.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-16">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197312-18">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Dharmasutras">The Dharmasutras</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Dharmasutras">edit</a>]</div> The Dharmasutras were numerous, but only four texts have survived into the modern era.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiv–xxv-20">[19]</a> The most important of these texts are the sutras of <a href="/wiki/Apastamba" class="mw-redirect" title="Apastamba">Apastamba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gautama_Dharmasutra" title="Gautama Dharmasutra">Gautama</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baudhayana" class="mw-redirect" title="Baudhayana">Baudhayana</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Vasistha" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasistha">Vasistha</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Patrick_Olivelle_1999-21">[20]</a> These extant texts cite writers and refer opinions of seventeen authorities, implying that a rich Dharmasutras tradition existed prior to when these texts were composed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197319–22,_Quote:_The_dharma-sutra_of_Apastamba_suggests_that_a_rich_literature_on_dharma_already_existed._He_cites_ten_authors_by_name._(...)-22">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006178,_see_note_29_for_a_list_of_17_cited_ancient_scholars_in_different_Dharmasutras-23">[22]</a> The extant Dharmasutras are written in concise <a href="/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra">sutra</a> format,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006178-24">[23]</a> with a very terse incomplete sentence structure which are difficult to understand and leave much to the reader to interpret.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiv–xxv-20">[19]</a> The Dharmasastras are derivative works on the Dharmasutras, using a <a href="/wiki/Shloka" title="Shloka">shloka</a> (four 8-syllable verse style <a href="/wiki/Chandas" class="mw-redirect" title="Chandas">chandas</a> poetry, Anushtubh meter), which are relatively clearer.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiv–xxv-20">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197373-5">[4]</a> The Dharmasutras can be called the guidebooks of dharma as they contain guidelines for individual and social behavior, ethical norms, as well as personal, civil and criminal law.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiv–xxv-20">[19]</a> They discuss the duties and rights of people at different stages of life like studenthood, householdership, retirement and renunciation. These stages are also called <a href="/wiki/Ashrama_(stage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashrama (stage)">ashramas</a>. They also discuss the rites and duties of kings, judicial matters, and personal law such as matters relating to marriage and inheritance.<a href="#cite_note-Patrick_Olivelle_1999-21">[20]</a> However, Dharmasutras typically did not deal with rituals and ceremonies, a topic that was covered in the Shrautasutras and Grihyasutras texts of the <a href="/wiki/Kalpa_(Vedanga)" title="Kalpa (Vedanga)">Kalpa (Vedanga)</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiv–xxv-20">[19]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Style_of_composition">Style of composition</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Style of composition">edit</a>]</div> The hymns of Ṛgveda are one of the earliest texts composed in verse. The Brāhmaṇa which belongs to the middle vedic period followed by the vedāṇga are composed in prose. The basic texts are composed in an aphoristic style known as the <a href="/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra">sutra</a> which literally means thread on which each aphorism is strung like a pearl.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiv-25">[24]</a> The Dharmasūtras are composed in sutra style and were part of a larger compilation of texts, called the Kalpasūtras which give an aphoristic description of the rituals, ceremonies and proper procedures. The Kalpasutras contain three sections, namely the Śrautasūtras which deal with vedic ceremonies, Gṛhyasūtras which deal with rites of passage rituals and domestic matters, and Dharmasūtras which deal with proper procedures in one's life.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-26">[25]</a> The Dharmasūtras of Āpastamba and Baudhāyana form a part of larger Kalpasutra texts, all of which has survived into the modern era.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-26">[25]</a> The sūtra tradition ended around the beginning of the common era and was followed by the poetic octosyllable verse style called the śloka.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-27">[26]</a> The verse style was used to compose the Dharmaśāstras such as the <a href="/wiki/Manusmriti" title="Manusmriti">Manusmriti</a>, the Hindu epics, and the <a href="/wiki/Puranas" title="Puranas">Puranas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-27">[26]</a> The age of Smṛtis that ended around the second half of the first millennium CE was followed by that of commentaries around the 9th century called nibandha. This legal tradition consisted of commentaries on earlier Dharmasūtras and Smritis.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-27">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Authorship_and_dates">Authorship and dates</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Authorship and dates">edit</a>]</div> About 20 Dharmasutras are known, some surviving into the modern era just as fragments of their original.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197318-28">[27]</a> Four Dharmasūtras have been translated into English, and most remain in manuscripts.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197318-28">[27]</a> All carry the names of their authors, but it is still difficult to determine who these real authors were.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-27">[26]</a> The extant Dharmasūtra texts are listed below: <blockquote style="background-color:none;margin-right:5em;margin-left:0em;border-left:solid 6px #FFE0BB;padding:1.0em"> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Apastamba_Dharmasutra" title="Apastamba Dharmasutra">Apastamba</a> (450–350 BCE) this Dharmasūtra forms a part of the larger <a href="/wiki/Kalpa_(Vedanga)" title="Kalpa (Vedanga)">Kalpasūtra</a> of Apastamba. It contains 1,364 sutras.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006185-29">[28]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gautama_Dharmasutra" title="Gautama Dharmasutra">Gautama</a> (600–200 BCE) although this Dharmasūtra comes down as an independent treatise it may have once formed a part of the Kalpasūtra, linked to the <a href="/wiki/Samaveda" title="Samaveda">Samaveda</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197319-30">[29]</a> It is likely the oldest extant Dharma text, and originated in what is modern <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>-<a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197319–20-31">[30]</a> It contains 973 sutras.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle200646-32">[31]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baudh%C4%81yana" class="mw-redirect" title="Baudhāyana">Baudhāyana</a> (500–200 BCE) this Dharmasūtra like that of Apastamba also forms a part of the larger Kalpasūtra. It contains 1,236 sutras.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006185-29">[28]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasishtha" title="Vasishtha">Vasishtha</a> (300–100 BCE) this Dharmasūtra forms an independent treatise and other parts of the Kalpasūtra, that is Shrauta- and Grihya-sutras are missing.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197318-28">[27]</a> It contains 1,038 sutras.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006185-29">[28]</a></li></ol> </blockquote> The Dharmasūtra of Āpastamba and Baudhayana form a part of the Kalpasūtra but it is not easy to establish whether they were historical authors of these texts or whether these texts were composed within certain institutions attributed to their names.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-27">[26]</a> Moreover, Gautama and Vasiṣṭha are ancient sages related to specific vedic schools and therefore it is hard to say whether they were historical authors of these texts.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxvi-33">[32]</a> The issue of authorship is further complicated by the fact that apart from Āpastamba the other Dharmasūtras have various alterations made at later times.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxvi-33">[32]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="; color: #202122;background-color: #FFE0BB;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Excellence <div class="poem"> Practise righteousness (<a href="/wiki/Dharma" title="Dharma">dharma</a>), not unrighteousness. Speak the truth, not an untruth. Look at what is distant, not what's near at hand. Look at the highest, not at what's less than highest. </div> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">— Vasishtha Dharmasutra 30.1 <a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999325-34">[33]</a></cite></div> </div> There is uncertainty regarding the dates of these documents due to lack of evidence concerning these documents. Kane has posited the following dates for the texts, for example, though other scholars disagree: Gautama 600 BCE to 400 BCE, Āpastamba 450 BCE to 350 BCE, Baudhāyana 500 BCE to 200 BCE, and Vasiṣṭha 300 BCE to 100 BCE.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxi-35">[34]</a> Patrick Olivelle suggests that Apastamba Dharmasutra is the oldest of the extant texts in Dharmasutra genre and one by Gautama second oldest, while Robert Lingat suggests that Gautama Dharmasutra is the oldest.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006178_with_note_28-36">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197319–20-31">[30]</a> There is confusion regarding the geographical provenance of these documents. According to Bühler and Kane, Āpastamba came from South India probably from a region corresponding to modern <a href="/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh" title="Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxvii-37">[36]</a> Baudhāyana also came from south although evidence regarding this is weaker than that of Āpastamba.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxvii-37">[36]</a> Gautama likely came from western region, nearer to the northwestern region to which Pāṇini belonged, and one which corresponds to where Maratha people in modern India are found.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197319-30">[29]</a> Nothing can be said about Vasiṣṭha due to lack of any evidence.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxviii-38">[37]</a> Scholars have varied opinions about the chronology of these documents. Regarding the age of Āpastamba and Gautama there are opposite conclusions. According to Bühler and Lingat Āpastamba is younger than Baudhāyana. Vasiṣṭha is surely a later text.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxviii-38">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Literary_structure">Literary structure</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Literary structure">edit</a>]</div> The structure of these Dharmasūtras primarily addresses the Brahmins both in subject matter and the audience.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxiv-39">[38]</a> The Brahmins are the creators and primary consumers of these texts.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxiv-39">[38]</a> The subject matter of Dharmasūtras is dharma. The central focus of these texts is how a Brahmin male should conduct himself during his lifetime.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxiv-39">[38]</a> The text of Āpastamba which is best preserved has a total of 1,364 sūtras out of which 1,206 (88 per cent) are devoted to the Brahmin, whereas only 158 (12 per cent) deals with topics of general nature.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxv-40">[39]</a> The structure of the Dharmasūtras begin with the vedic initiation of a young boy followed by entry into adulthood, marriage and responsibilities of adult life that includes adoption, inheritance, death rituals and ancestral offerings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxv-40">[39]</a> According to Olivelle, the reason Dharmasutras introduced vedic initiation was to make the individual subject to Dharma precepts at school, by making him a 'twice born' man, because children were considered exempt from Dharma precepts in the vedic tradition.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxv-40">[39]</a> The structure of Dharmasūtra of Āpastamba begins with the duties of the student, then describes householder duties and rights such as inheritance, and ends with administration of the king.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxvi-41">[40]</a> This forms the early structure of the Dharma texts. However, in the Dharmasūtras of Gautama, Baudhāyana and Vasiṣṭha some sections such as inheritance and penance are reorganized, and moved from householder section to king-related section.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxvi-41">[40]</a> Ollivelle suggests that these changes may be because of chronological reasons where civil law increasingly became part of the king's administrative responsibilities.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxvi-41">[40]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_meaning_of_Dharma">The meaning of Dharma</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The meaning of Dharma">edit</a>]</div> Dharma is a concept which is central not only in Hinduism but also in Jainism and Buddhism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxvii-42">[41]</a> The term means a lot of things and has a wide scope of interpretation.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxvii-42">[41]</a> The fundamental meaning of Dharma in Dharmasūtras, states Olivelle is diverse, and includes accepted norms of behavior, procedures within a ritual, moral actions, righteousness and ethical attitudes, civil and criminal law, legal procedures and penance or punishment, and guidelines for proper and productive living.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxviii–xxxix-43">[42]</a> The term Dharma also includes social institutions such as marriage, inheritance, adoption, work contracts, judicial process in case of disputes, as well personal choices such as meat as food and sexual conduct.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxviii–xxxix,_27–28-44">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_source_of_Dharma:_scriptures_or_empiricism">The source of Dharma: scriptures or empiricism</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The source of Dharma: scriptures or empiricism">edit</a>]</div> The source of dharma was a question that loomed in the minds of Dharma text writers, and they tried to seek "where guidelines for Dharma can be found?"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxix-45">[44]</a> They sought to define and examine vedic injunctions as the source of Dharma, asserting that like the Vedas, Dharma is not of human origin.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxix-45">[44]</a> This worked for rituals-related rules, but in all other matters this created numerous interpretations and different derivations.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxix-45">[44]</a> This led to documents with various working definitions, such as dharma of different regions (deshadharma), of social groups (jatidharma), of different families (kuladharma).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxix-45">[44]</a> The authors of Dharmasutras and Dharmashastra admit that these dharmas are not found in the Vedic texts, nor can the behavioral rules included therein be found in any of the Vedas.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxix-45">[44]</a> This led to the incongruity between the search for legal codes and dharma rules in the theological versus the reality of epistemic origins of dharma rules and guidelines.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxxix-45">[44]</a> The Hindu scholar Āpastamba, in a Dharmasutra named after him (~400 BCE), made an attempt to resolve this issue of incongruity. He placed the importance of the Veda scriptures second and that of samayacarika or mutually agreed and accepted customs of practice first.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xl-46">[45]</a> Āpastamba thus proposed that scriptures alone cannot be source of Law (dharma), and dharma has an empirical nature.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xl-46">[45]</a> Āpastamba asserted that it is difficult to find absolute sources of law, in ancient books or current people, states <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Olivelle" title="Patrick Olivelle">Patrick Olivelle</a> with, "The Righteous (dharma) and the Unrighteous (adharma) do not go around saying, 'here we are!'; Nor do gods, Gandharvas or ancestors declare, 'This is righteous and that is unrighteous'."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xl-46">[45]</a> Most laws are based on agreement between the Aryas, stated Āpastamba, on what is right and what is wrong.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xl-46">[45]</a> Laws must also change with ages, stated Āpastamba, a theory that became known as Yuga dharma in Hindu traditions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xli-47">[46]</a> Āpastamba also asserted in verses 2.29.11–15, states Olivelle, that "aspects of dharma not taught in Dharmasastras can be learned from women and people of all classes".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006180-48">[47]</a> Āpastamba used a hermeneutic strategy that asserted that the Vedas once contained all knowledge including that of ideal Dharma, but parts of Vedas have been lost.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xli-47">[46]</a> Human customs developed from the original complete Vedas, but given the lost text, one must use customs between good people as a source to infer what the original Vedas might have stated the Dharma to be.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xli-47">[46]</a> This theory, called the 'lost Veda' theory, made the study of customs of good people as a source of dharma and guide to proper living, states Olivelle.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xli-47">[46]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="; color: #202122;background-color: #FFE0BB;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Testimony during a trial <div class="poem"> The witness must take an oath before deposing. Single witness normally does not suffice. As many as three witnesses are required. False evidence must face sanctions. </div> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">— Gautama Dharmasutras 13.2–13.6 <a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197369-49">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999100–101-50">[49]</a></cite></div> </div> The sources of dharma according to Gautama Dharmasutra are three: the Vedas, the Smriti (tradition), acāra (the practice) of those who know the Veda. These three sources are also found in later Dharmashastra literature.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xli-47">[46]</a> Baudhāyana Dharmasutra lists the same three, but calls the third as śiṣṭa (शिष्ट, literally polite cultured people)<a href="#cite_note-52">[note 2]</a> or the practice of cultured people as the third source of dharma.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xli-47">[46]</a> Both Baudhāyana Dharmasutra and Vāsiṣṭha Dharmasutra make the practices of śiṣṭa as a source of dharma, but both state that the geographical location of such polite cultured people does not limit the usefulness of universal precepts contained in their practices.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xli-47">[46]</a> In case of conflict between different sources of dharma, Gautama Dharmasutra states that the Vedas prevail over other sources, and if two Vedic texts are in conflict then the individual has a choice to follow either.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xlii-53">[51]</a> The nature of Dharmasūtras is normative, they tell what people ought to do, but they do not tell what people actually did.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999x1ii-54">[52]</a> Some scholars state that these sources are unreliable and worthless for historical purposes instead to use archaeology, epigraphy and other historical evidence to establish the actual legal codes in Indian history. Olivelle states that the dismissal of normative texts is unwise, as is believing that the Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras texts present a uniform code of conduct and there were no divergent or dissenting views.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999x1ii-54">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Dharmaśāstras">The Dharmaśāstras</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Dharmaśāstras">edit</a>]</div> Written after the Dharmasūtras, these texts use a metered verse and are much more elaborate in their scope than Dharmasutras.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197373–77-55">[53]</a> The word Dharmaśāstras never appears in the Vedic texts, and the word śāstra itself appears for the first time in Yaska's <a href="/wiki/Nirukta" title="Nirukta">Nirukta</a> text.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006169–170-56">[54]</a> <a href="/wiki/K%C4%81ty%C4%81yana" title="Kātyāyana">Katyayana's</a> commentary on Panini's work (~3rd century BCE), has the oldest known single mention of the word Dharmaśāstras.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006169–170-56">[54]</a> The extant Dharmaśāstras texts are listed below: <blockquote style="background-color:none;margin-right:5em;margin-left:0em;border-left:solid 6px #FFE0BB;padding:1.0em"> <ol><li>The <a href="/wiki/Manusmriti" title="Manusmriti">Manusmriti</a> (~ 2nd to 3rd century CE)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETimothy_LubinDonald_R._Davis_JrJayanth_K._Krishnan201057-57">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a> is the most studied and earliest metrical work of the Dharmaśāstra textual tradition of <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFlood199656-59">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2005-60">[58]</a> The medieval era Buddhistic law of <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> are also ascribed to Manu,<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle20053–4-62">[60]</a> and the text influenced past Hindu kingdoms in <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197377-63">[61]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Y%C4%81j%C3%B1avalkya_Sm%E1%B9%9Bti" title="Yājñavalkya Smṛti">Yājñavalkya Smṛti</a> (~ 4th to 5th-century CE)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETimothy_LubinDonald_R._Davis_JrJayanth_K._Krishnan201057-57">[55]</a> has been called the "best composed" and "most homogeneous"<a href="#cite_note-64">[62]</a> text of the Dharmaśāstra tradition, with its superior vocabulary and level of sophistication. It may have been more influential than Manusmriti as a legal theory text.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETimothy_LubinDonald_R._Davis_JrJayanth_K._Krishnan201059–72-65">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197398-66">[64]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/N%C4%81radasm%E1%B9%9Bti" title="Nāradasmṛti">Nāradasmṛti</a> (~ 5th to 6th-century CE)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETimothy_LubinDonald_R._Davis_JrJayanth_K._Krishnan201057-57">[55]</a> has been called the "juridical text par excellence" and represents the only Dharmaśāstra text which deals solely with juridical matters and ignoring those of righteous conduct and penance.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELariviere1989-67">[65]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Vi%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%87usm%E1%B9%9Bti" class="mw-redirect" title="Viṣṇusmṛti">Viṣṇusmṛti</a> (~ 7th-century CE)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETimothy_LubinDonald_R._Davis_JrJayanth_K._Krishnan201057-57">[55]</a> is one of the latest books of the Dharmaśāstra tradition in Hinduism and also the only one which does not deal directly with the means of knowing <a href="/wiki/Dharma" title="Dharma">dharma</a>, focusing instead on the <a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">bhakti</a> tradition.<a href="#cite_note-68">[66]</a></li></ol> </blockquote> In addition, numerous other Dharmaśāstras are known,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973277-69">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[note 3]</a> partially or indirectly, with very different ideas, customs and conflicting versions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973195–198-73">[70]</a> For example, the manuscripts of Bṛhaspatismṛti and the Kātyāyanasmṛti have not been found, but their verses have been cited in other texts, and scholars have made an effort to extract these cited verses, thus creating a modern reconstruction of these texts.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973104-74">[71]</a> Scholars such as Jolly and Aiyangar have gathered some 2,400 verses of the lost Bṛhaspatismṛti text in this manner.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973104-74">[71]</a> Brihaspati-smriti was likely a larger and more comprehensive text than Manusmriti,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973104-74">[71]</a> yet both Brihaspati-smriti and Katyayana-smriti seem to have been predominantly devoted to judicial process and jurisprudence.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006188-75">[72]</a> The writers of Dharmasastras acknowledged their mutual differences, and developed a "doctrine of consensus" reflecting regional customs and preferences.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197314,_109–110,_180–189-76">[73]</a> Of the four extant Dharmasastras, Manusmriti, Yajnavalkyasmriti and Naradasmriti are the most important surviving texts.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197397-77">[74]</a> But, states Robert Lingat, numerous other Dharmasastras whose manuscripts are now missing, have enjoyed equal authority.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197397-77">[74]</a> Between the three, the Manusmriti became famous during the colonial British India era, yet modern scholarship states that other Dharmasastras such as the Yajnavalkyasmriti appear to have played a greater role in guiding the actual Dharma.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197398,_103–106-78">[75]</a> Further, the Dharmasastras were open texts, and they underwent alterations and rewriting through their history.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973130–131-79">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contents_of_Dharmasutras_and_Dharmaśāstra">Contents of Dharmasutras and Dharmaśāstra</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Contents of Dharmasutras and Dharmaśāstra">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oriya_land_grant.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Oriya_land_grant.jpg/220px-Oriya_land_grant.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Oriya_land_grant.jpg/330px-Oriya_land_grant.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Oriya_land_grant.jpg/440px-Oriya_land_grant.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="837" /></a><figcaption>A facsimile of an inscription in <a href="/wiki/Oriya_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriya script">Oriya script</a> on a copper plate recording a <a href="/wiki/Land_grant" title="Land grant">land grant</a> made by Rāja Purushottam Deb, king of <a href="/wiki/Odisha" title="Odisha">Odisha</a>, in the fifth year of his reign (1483). Land grants made by royal decree were protected by law, with deeds often being recorded on metal plates</figcaption></figure> All <a href="/wiki/Dharma" title="Dharma">Dharma</a>, in Hindu traditions, has its foundation in the <a href="/wiki/Vedas" title="Vedas">Vedas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat19737–8-17">[16]</a> 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).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat19736-80">[77]</a> The Dharmashastra texts include conflicting claims on the sources of dharma. The theological claim therein asserts, without any elaboration, that Dharma just like the Vedas are eternal and timeless, the former is directly or indirectly related to the Vedas.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006173–174-81">[78]</a> Yet these texts also acknowledge the role of Smriti, customs of polite learned people, and one's conscience as source of dharma.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat19736-80">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006173–174-81">[78]</a> The historical reality, states Patrick Olivelle, is very different from the theological reference to the Vedas, and the dharma taught in the Dharmaśāstra has little to do with the Vedas.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006173–174-81">[78]</a> These were customs, norms or pronouncements of the writers of these texts that were likely derived from evolving regional ethical, ideological, cultural and legal practices.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006175–178,_184–185-82">[79]</a> The Dharmasutra and Dharmaśāstra texts, as they have survived into the modern era, were not authored by a single author. They were viewed by the ancient and medieval era commentators, states Olivelle, to be the works of many authors.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006176–177-83">[80]</a> Robert Lingat adds that these texts suggest that "a rich literature on dharma already existed" before these were first composed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197322-84">[81]</a> These texts were revised and interpolated through their history because the various text manuscripts discovered in India are inconsistent with each other, and within themselves, raising concerns of their authenticity.<a href="#cite_note-olivellecriticaledition-85">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-srikantan-86">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973129–131-87">[84]</a> The Dharmaśāstra texts present their ideas under various categories such as Acara, Vyavahara, Prayascitta and others, but they do so inconsistently.<a href="#cite_note-88">[85]</a> Some discuss Acara but do not discuss Vyavahara, as is the case with Parasara-Smriti for instance,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973158–159-89">[86]</a> while some solely discuss Vyavahara.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006188-75">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ācāra">Ācāra</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Ācāra">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/%C4%80c%C4%81ra" title="Ācāra">Ācāra</a></div> Ācāra (आचार) literally means "good behavior, custom".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973103,_159-90">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006172-91">[88]</a> It refers to the normative behavior and practices of a community, conventions and behaviors that enable a society and various individuals therein to function.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006172–173-92">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197314–16-93">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vyavahāra">Vyavahāra</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Vyavahāra">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Vyavah%C4%81ra" title="Vyavahāra">Vyavahāra</a></div> Vyavahāra (व्यवहार) literally means "judicial procedure, process, practice, conduct and behaviour".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973285-94">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006186–188-95">[92]</a> The due process, honesty in testimony, considering various sides, was justified by Dharmaśāstra authors as a form of Vedic sacrifice, failure of the due process was declared to be a sin.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973149–150-96">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[94]</a> The Vyavahara sections of Dharma texts included chapters on duties of a king, court system, judges and witnesses, judicial process, crimes and penance or punishment.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006186–188-95">[92]</a> However, the discussions and procedures in different Dharmasutra and Dharmaśāstra texts diverge significantly.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006186–188-95">[92]</a> Some Dharmaśāstra texts such as that attributed to Brihaspati, are almost entirely Vyavahāra-related texts. These were probably composed in the common era, around or after 5th-century of 1st millennium.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006188-75">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prāyaścitta">Prāyaścitta</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Prāyaścitta">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Pr%C4%81ya%C5%9Bcitta" title="Prāyaścitta">Prāyaścitta</a></div> Prāyaścitta (प्रायश्चित्त) literally means "atonement, expiation, penance".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197398–99-98">[95]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006195–198_with_footnotes-99">[96]</a> Prāyaścitta is asserted by the Dharmasutra and Dharmashastra texts as an alternative to incarceration and punishment,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006195–198_with_footnotes-99">[96]</a> and a means of expiating bad conduct or sin such as adultery by a married person.<a href="#cite_note-100">[97]</a> Thus, in the Apastambha text, a willing sexual act between a male and female is subject to penance, while rape is covered by harsher judicial punishments, with a few texts such as Manusmriti suggesting public punishments in extreme cases.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006195–198_with_footnotes-99">[96]</a> Those texts that discuss Prāyaścitta, states <a href="/wiki/Robert_Lingat" title="Robert Lingat">Robert Lingat</a>, debate the intent and thought behind the improper act, and consider penance appropriate when the "effect" had to be balanced, but "cause" was unclear.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197354–56-101">[98]</a> The roots of this theory are found in the <a href="/wiki/Brahmana" title="Brahmana">Brahmana</a> layer of text in the <a href="/wiki/Samaveda" title="Samaveda">Samaveda</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197355-102">[99]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Secondary_works">Secondary works</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Secondary works">edit</a>]</div> The Dharmasutras and Dharmasastras attracted secondary works called commentaries (<a href="/wiki/Bhashya" title="Bhashya">Bhashya</a>) & would typically interpret and explain the text of interest, accept or reject the ideas along with reasons why.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973107-103">[100]</a> <table class="wikitable" style="background: transparent;"> <caption>Commentaries (bhasya) on Dharmasastras </caption> <tbody><tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120" style="background: #ffad66;">Dharmasastra </td> <td width="360" style="background: #ffdd00;">Author of Commentary </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120"><a href="/wiki/Manusmriti" title="Manusmriti">Manusmriti</a> </td> <td width="360"><a href="/wiki/Bh%C4%81ruci" title="Bhāruci">Bhāruci</a> (600–1050 CE),<a href="#cite_note-104">[101]</a> <a href="/wiki/Medh%C4%81tithi" title="Medhātithi">Medhātithi</a> (820–1050 CE),<a href="#cite_note-105">[102]</a> Govindarāja (11th-century),<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2005367–369-106">[103]</a> Kullūka (1200–1500 CE),<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2005367–369-106">[103]</a> Narayana (14th-century),<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2005367–369-106">[103]</a> Nandana,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2005367–369-106">[103]</a> Raghavananda,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2005367–369-106">[103]</a> Ramacandra<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2005367–369-106">[103]</a> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120"><a href="/wiki/Yajnavalkya_Smriti" class="mw-redirect" title="Yajnavalkya Smriti">Yajnavalkya Smriti</a> </td> <td width="360">Visvarupa (750–1000 CE), Vijnanesvara (11th or 12th century, <a href="/wiki/Mit%C4%81k%E1%B9%A3ar%C4%81" title="Mitākṣarā">most studied</a>), Apararka (12th-century), Sulapani (14th or 15th century), Mitramisra (17th-century)<a href="#cite_note-rochercommentaries-107">[104]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanerji199972–75-108">[105]</a> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120">Narada-smriti </td> <td width="360">Kalyanabhatta (based on Asahaya's work)<a href="#cite_note-rochercommentaries-107">[104]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanerji199972–75-108">[105]</a> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120">Parashara-smriti </td> <td width="360"><a href="/wiki/Vidyaranya" title="Vidyaranya">Vidyaranya</a>, Nandapandita </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120">Vishnu-smriti </td> <td width="360">Nandapandita<a href="#cite_note-rochercommentaries-107">[104]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> Another category of secondary literature derived from the Dharmasutras and Dharmasastras were the digests (nibandhas, sometimes spelled nibhandas). These arose primarily because of the conflict and disagreements on a particular subject across the various Dharma texts.<a href="#cite_note-109">[106]</a> These digests attempted to reconcile, bridge or suggest a compromise guideline to the numerous disagreements in the primary texts, however the digests in themselves disagreed with each other even on basic principles.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanerji19995–6,_307-110">[107]</a> Geographically, the medieval era digest writers came from many different parts of India, such as <a href="/wiki/Assam" title="Assam">Assam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bengal" title="Bengal">Bengal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kashmir" title="Kashmir">Kashmir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odisha" title="Odisha">Odisha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh" title="Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanerji199938–72-111">[108]</a> Some important nibandhas are <a href="#cite_note-112">[109]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ol><li>Caturvargacintāmaṇi of <a href="/wiki/Hemadpant" title="Hemadpant">Hemādri</a>, composed around A. D. 1260-1270</li> <li>Kṛtya-kalpataru of Lakṣmīdhara, a minister of the <a href="/wiki/Govindachandra_(Gahadavala_dynasty)" title="Govindachandra (Gahadavala dynasty)">king Govindacandra of Kanauj</a></li> <li>Nirṇayasindhu of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kamal%C4%81kara_Bha%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%ADa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kamalākara Bhaṭṭa (page does not exist)">Kamalākara Bhaṭṭa</a> [<a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F" class="extiw" title="hi:कमलाकर भट्ट">hi</a>], composed around A. D. 1612</li> <li>Smṛticandrikā of Devaṇṇabhaṭṭa (A. D. 1150-1225)</li> <li>Smṛtikaustubha of Anantadeva (grandson of <a href="/wiki/Eknath" title="Eknath">Eknāth</a>), composed around A. D. 1645-1695</li> <li>Smṛtiratnākara of <a href="/wiki/Ca%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8De%C5%9Bvara_%E1%B9%AChakkura" title="Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura">Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura</a>, composed around A. D. 1314</li> <li>Smṛtitattva or commonly referred to as Astāviṃśati-tattva of <a href="/wiki/Raghunandana" title="Raghunandana">Raghunandana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C4%ABramitrodaya" title="Vīramitrodaya">Vīramitrodaya</a> of Mitramiśra (A. D. 1610-1640)</li> <li>Dāyabhāga of <a href="/wiki/J%C4%ABm%C5%ABtav%C4%81hana" class="mw-redirect" title="Jīmūtavāhana">Jīmūtavāhana</a>, composed around A. D. 1100</li> <li>Vyavahāra-mayūkha & Bhagavanta-bhāskara of Nīlakaṇṭha Bhaṭṭa, cousin of Kamalākara Bhaṭṭa (17th century)</li> <li>Smṛtisindhu and its summary Tattvamuktāvalī, Dattaka-mīmāṁsā of Nandapaṇḍita (A. D. 1580-1630)</li> <li>Ṭoḍarānanda of <a href="/wiki/Todar_Mal" title="Todar Mal">Rājā Ṭoḍaramal</a>, composed around A. D. 1572-1589, sponsored by the Mughal emperor <a href="/wiki/Akbar" title="Akbar">Akbar</a></li> <li>Dharmasindhu of Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya, composed around A. D. 1790-91</li></ol> </div> The nibandhakāras discussed almost all aspects of society, but specialised in certain topics compared to others. <table class="wikitable" style="background: transparent;"> <caption>Topic specialisation of nibandhakāras </caption> <tbody><tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120" style="background: #ffad66;">Subject </td> <td width="360" style="background: #ffdd00;">Author of Digests </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120">General </td> <td width="360">Lakṣmīdhara (1104–1154 CE),<a href="#cite_note-Heim2004p4-113">[110]</a> Devaṇṇa-bhaṭṭan (1200 CE), Pratāparuda-deva (16th-century),<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973116-114">[111]</a> Nīlakaṇṭha (1600–1650),<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanerji199966–67-115">[112]</a> Dalpati (16th-century), Kashinatha (1790)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanerji199965–66-116">[113]</a> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120">Inheritance </td> <td width="360"><a href="/wiki/J%C4%ABm%C5%ABtav%C4%81hana" class="mw-redirect" title="Jīmūtavāhana">Jīmūtavāhana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raghunandana" title="Raghunandana">Raghunandana</a> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120">Adoption </td> <td width="360">Nanda-paṇḍita (16th–17th century)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat1973117-117">[114]</a> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120">King's duties </td> <td width="360">Caṇḍeśvara, Ṭoḍar Mal (16th century)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanerji199971-118">[115]</a> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: left;"> <td width="120">Judicial process </td> <td width="360">Caṇḍeśvara (14th century), Kamalākara-bhatta (1612), Nīlakaṇṭha (17th century),<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanerji199966–67-115">[112]</a> Mitra-miśra (17th century) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Women_jurists">Women jurists</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Women jurists">edit</a>]</div> A few notable historic digests on Dharmasastras were written by women.<a href="#cite_note-mrjoisp50-119">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-westbuhlerp6-120">[117]</a> These include Lakshmidevi's Vivadachandra and Mahadevi Dhiramati's Danavakyavali.<a href="#cite_note-mrjoisp50-119">[116]</a> Lakshmidevi, state West and Bühler, gives a latitudinarian views and widest interpretation to Yajnavalkya Smriti, but her views were not widely adopted by male legal scholars of her time.<a href="#cite_note-westbuhlerp6-120">[117]</a> The scholarly works of Lakshmidevi were also published with the pen name Balambhatta, and are now considered classics in legal theories on inheritance and property rights, particularly for women.<a href="#cite_note-121">[118]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dharma_texts_and_the_schools_of_Hindu_philosophy">Dharma texts and the schools of Hindu philosophy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Dharma texts and the schools of Hindu philosophy">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Mimamsa" class="mw-redirect" title="Mimamsa">Mimamsa</a> school of Hindu philosophy developed textual hermeneutics, theories on language and interpretation of Dharma, ideas which contributed to the Dharmasutras and Dharmasastras.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonald_R._Davis,_Jr201047–49-122">[119]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Vedanga" title="Vedanga">Vedanga</a> fields of grammar and linguistics – <a href="/wiki/Vyakarana" class="mw-redirect" title="Vyakarana">Vyakarana</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nirukta" title="Nirukta">Nirukta</a> – were the other significant contributors to the Dharma-text genre.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonald_R._Davis,_Jr201047–49-122">[119]</a> Mimamsa literally means the "desire to think", states Donald Davis, and in colloquial historical context "how to think, interpret things, and the meaning of texts".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonald_R._Davis,_Jr201047–49-122">[119]</a> In the early portions of the Vedas, the focus was largely on the rituals; in the later portions, largely on philosophical speculations and the spiritual liberation (<a href="/wiki/Moksha" title="Moksha">moksha</a>) of the individual.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonald_R._Davis,_Jr201047–49-122">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-fxclooneyp25-123">[120]</a> The Dharma-texts, over time and each in its own way, attempted to present their theories on rules and duties of individuals from the perspective of a society, using the insights of hermeneutics and on language developed by Mimamsa and Vedanga.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonald_R._Davis,_Jr201047–49-122">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-fxclooneyp25-123">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-124">[121]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Nyaya" title="Nyaya">Nyaya</a> school of Hindu philosophy, and its insights into the theories on logic and reason, contributed to the development of and disagreements between the Dharmasastra texts, and the term Nyaya came to mean "justice".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELudo_Rocher2008112-125">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMandagadde_Rama_Jois19843,_469–481-126">[123]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence">Influence</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Influence">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hindu_law" title="Hindu law">Hindu law</a></div> Dharmaśāstras played an influential role in modern era colonial India history, when they were used as the basis for the law of the land for all non-Muslims (Hindus, <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sikhs" title="Sikhs">Sikhs</a>).<a href="#cite_note-J._Duncan_M._Derrett_1961_pp.10-13">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-Werner_Menski_2003-14">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-rocherresponse-127">[124]</a> In 18th century, the earliest British of the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a> acted as agents of the Mughal emperor. As the British colonial rule took over the political and administrative powers in India, it was faced with various state responsibilities such as legislative and judiciary functions.<a href="#cite_note-timlubin-128">[125]</a> The East India Company, and later the <a href="/wiki/British_Crown" class="mw-redirect" title="British Crown">British Crown</a>, sought profits for its British shareholders through trade as well as sought to maintain effective political control with minimal military engagement.<a href="#cite_note-dawashbrook-129">[126]</a> The administration pursued a path of least resistance, relying upon co-opted local intermediaries that were mostly Muslims and some Hindus in various <a href="/wiki/Princely_state" title="Princely state">princely states</a>.<a href="#cite_note-dawashbrook-129">[126]</a> The British exercised power by avoiding interference and adapting to law practices as explained by the local intermediaries.<a href="#cite_note-timlubin-128">[125]</a><a href="#cite_note-dawashbrook-129">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-130">[127]</a> The colonial policy on the system of personal laws for India, for example, was expressed by <a href="/wiki/Warren_Hastings" title="Warren Hastings">Governor-General Hastings</a> in 1772 as follows, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> That in all suits regarding inheritance, marriage, caste and other religious usages or institutions, the law of the Koran with respect to Mohamedans, and those of the Shaster [Dharmaśāstra] with respect to Gentoos shall be invariably be adhered to. <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Warren_Hastings" title="Warren Hastings">Warren Hastings</a>, August 15, 1772<a href="#cite_note-rocherresponse-127">[124]</a></cite></div></blockquote> For <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_South_Asia" title="Islam in South Asia">Muslims of British India</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Sharia</a> or the religious law for Muslims was easily available in <a href="/wiki/Al-Hidayah" title="Al-Hidayah">al-Hidaya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fatawa_al-Alamgir" class="mw-redirect" title="Fatawa al-Alamgir">Fatawa al-Alamgir</a> written under the sponsorship of <a href="/wiki/Aurangzeb" title="Aurangzeb">Aurangzeb</a>. But for non-Muslims (followers of <a href="/wiki/Dharmic_religions" class="mw-redirect" title="Dharmic religions">Dharmic religions</a> and others such as Tribal people and <a href="/wiki/Parsis" title="Parsis">Parsis</a>), this information was not readily available.<a href="#cite_note-timlubin-128">[125]</a> Hence the British colonial officials extracted from the Dharmaśāstra, the legal code to apply on non-Muslims for the purposes of colonial administration.<a href="#cite_note-131">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-132">[129]</a> The Dharmashastra-derived laws for non-Muslim Indians were dissolved after India gained independence, but Indian Muslim Personal Law (<a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Shariat</a>) Application Act of 1937 continued to be the personal and family law for Indian Muslims.<a href="#cite_note-gjlarson2001-133">[130]</a> For non-Muslims, a non-religious uniform civil code was passed by Indian parliament in the 1950s, and amended by its elected governments thereafter, which has since then applied to all non-Muslim Indians.<a href="#cite_note-gjlarson2001-133">[130]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_English_translations">Major English translations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Major English translations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_beginners">For beginners</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: For beginners">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Olivelle, Patrick. 1999. Dharmasūtras: The Law Codes of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and Vāsiṣṭha. New York: Oxford UP.</li> <li>Olivelle, Patrick. 2004. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=RGPSEuNsPLEC">The Law Code of Manu</a>. New York: Oxford UP.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_major_translations">Other major translations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Other major translations">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pandurang_Vaman_Kane" title="Pandurang Vaman Kane">Kane, P.V.</a> (ed. and trans.) 1933. Kātyāyanasmṛti on Vyavahāra (Law and Procedure). Poona: Oriental Book Agency.</li> <li>Lariviere, Richard W. 2003. The Nāradasmṛti. 2nd rev. ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.</li> <li>Rocher, Ludo. 1956. Vyavahāracintāmani: a digest on Hindu legal procedure. Gent.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_translations_with_full-text_online">Early translations with full-text online</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Early translations with full-text online">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Jha, Ganganath (trans.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/manusmriti-with-the-commentary-of-medhatithi">Manusmṛti with the Manubhāṣyya of Medhātithi</a>, including additional notes, 1920.</li> <li>Bühler, Georg (trans.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/manu.htm">The Laws of Manu</a>, SBE Vol. 25, 1886.</li> <li>Bühler, Georg (trans.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe02/index.htm">The Sacred Laws of the Āryas</a>, SBE Vol. 2, 1879 [Part 1: Āpastamba and Gautama]</li> <li>Bühler, Georg (trans.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe14/index.htm">The Sacred Laws of the Āryas</a>, SBE Vol. 14, 1882 [Part 2: Vāsiṣṭha and Baudhāyana]</li> <li>Jolly, Julius (trans.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/index.htm">The Institutes of Viṣṇu</a>, SBE Vol. 7, 1880.</li> <li>Jolly, Julius (trans.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe33/index.htm">The Minor Law-Books</a>, SBE Vol. 33. Oxford, 1889. [contains both Bṛhaspatismṛti and Nāradasmṛti]</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dhammasattha" title="Dhammasattha">Dhammasattha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tirukkural" class="mw-redirect" title="Tirukkural">Tirukkural</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Pandurang_Vaman_Kane" title="Pandurang Vaman Kane">Pandurang Vaman Kane</a> mentions over 100 different Dharmasastra texts which were known by the Middle Ages in India, but most of these are lost to history and their existence is inferred from quotes and citations in <a href="/wiki/Bhasya" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhasya">bhasya</a> and digests that have survived.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a> Baudhayana, in verses 1.1.5–6, provides a complete definition of śiṣṭa as "Now, śiṣṭa are those who are free from envy and pride, who possess just a jarful of grain, who are without greed, and who are free from hypocrisy, arrogance, greed, folly and anger."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006181-51">[50]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a> Numerous Dharmasastras are known, but most are lost to history and only known from them being mentioned or quoted in other surviving texts. For example, Dharmasastras by Atri, Harita, Ushanas, Angiras, Yama, Apastamba, Samvartha, Katyayana, Brihaspati, Parasara, Vyasa, Sankha, Likhita, Daksha, Gautama, Satatapa, Vasistha, Prachetas, Budha, Devala, Sumantu, Jamadgni, Visvamitra, Prajapati, Paithinasi, Pitamaha, Jabala, Chhagaleya, Chyavana, Marichi, Kasyapa, Gobhila, Risyasrimaga and others.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMandagadde_Rama_Jois198422-70">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[69]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dharma%C5%9B%C4%81stra&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Kane, P.V. History of the Dharmaśāstras Vol. 1 p. 304 </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> James Lochtefeld (2002), "Dharma Shastras" in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 1: A-M, Rosen Publishing, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8239-2287-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8239-2287-1">0-8239-2287-1</a>, pages 191–192 </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiii–xxv-4"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle1999xxiii–xxv_4-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFPatrick_Olivelle1999">Patrick Olivelle 1999</a>, pp. xxiii–xxv. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197373-5">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197373_5-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERobert_Lingat197373_5-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFRobert_Lingat1973">Robert Lingat 1973</a>, p. 73. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006173,_175–176,_183-6"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPatrick_Olivelle2006173,_175–176,_183_6-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFPatrick_Olivelle2006">Patrick Olivelle 2006</a>, pp. 173, 175–176, 183. </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Olivelle" title="Patrick Olivelle">Patrick Olivelle</a>, Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra (New York: Oxford UP, 2005), 64. </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> Ludo Rocher, "Hindu Law and Religion: Where to draw the line?" in Malik Ram Felicitation Volume, ed. S.A.J. Zaidi. (New Delhi, 1972), pp.167–194 and Richard W. Lariviere, "Law and Religion in India" in Law, Morality, and Religion: Global Perspectives, ed. 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