Dharmaśāstra | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 11/05/2019

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00:01:35 1 History
00:03:42 1.1 The Dharmasutras
00:05:32 1.1.1 Style of composition
00:07:22 1.1.2 Authorship and dates
00:11:41 1.1.3 Literary structure
00:13:53 1.1.4 The meaning of Dharma
00:14:55 1.1.5 The source of Dharma: scriptures or empiricism
00:20:06 1.2 The Dharmaśāstras
00:24:04 2 Contents of Dharmasutras and Dharmaśāstra
00:26:35 2.1 Āachara
00:27:02 2.2 Vyavahāra
00:28:13 2.3 Prāyaśchitta
00:29:25 3 Secondary works
00:31:15 3.1 Women jurists
00:32:06 4 Dharma texts and the schools of Hindu philosophy
00:33:46 5 Influence
00:36:46 6 Major English translations
00:36:57 6.1 For beginners
00:37:28 6.2 Other major translations
00:38:12 6.3 Early translations with full-text online
00:39:31 7 See also



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Dharmaśāstra (Sanskrit: धर्मशास्त्र) is a genre of Sanskrit theological texts, and refers to the treatises (shastras) of Hinduism on dharma. There are many Dharmashastras, variously estimated to be 18 to about 100, with different and conflicting points of view. Each of these texts exist in many different versions, and each is rooted in Dharmasutra texts dated to 1st millennium BCE that emerged from Kalpa (Vedanga) studies in the Vedic era.The textual corpus of Dharmaśāstra were composed in poetic verses, are part of the Hindu Smritis, constituting divergent commentaries and treatises on duties, responsibilities and ethics to oneself, to family and as a member of society. The texts include discussion of ashrama (stages of life), varna (social classes), purushartha (proper goals of life), personal virtues and duties such as ahimsa (non-violence) against all living beings, rules of just war, and other topics.Dharmaśāstra became influential in modern colonial India history, when they were formulated by early British colonial administrators to be the law of the land for all non-Muslims (Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs) in India, after Sharia was already accepted as the law for Muslims in colonial India.