Dharmaśāstra, the Glossary
Dharmaśāstra (धर्मशास्त्र) are Sanskrit Puranic Smriti texts on law and conduct, and refer to treatises (śāstras) on Dharma.[1]
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93 relations: Ahimsa, Akbar, Al-Hidayah, Andhra Pradesh, Apastamba Dharmasutra, Aranyaka, Assam, Aurangzeb, Āśrama (stage), Baudhayana sutras, Bengal, Bhakti, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Bhashya, Bhāruci, Bihar, Brahmana, Buddhism, Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura, Cambodia, Colonial India, Dhammasattha, Dharma, Dharmaśāstra, East India Company, Eknath, Fatawa 'Alamgiri, Gautama Dharmasutra, Govindachandra (Gahadavala dynasty), Gujarat, Hemadpant, Hindu astrology, Hindu law, Hinduism, Indian religions, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam in South Asia, Jainism, Jimutavahana, Just war theory, Kalpa (Vedanga), Karnataka, Kashmir, Kātyāyana, Kural, Maharashtra, Mantra, Manusmriti, Mīmāṃsā, ... Expand index (43 more) »
- Ancient Indian law
- Religious law
Ahimsa
(IAST) is the ancient Indian principle of nonviolence which applies to actions towards all living beings.
Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.
Al-Hidayah
Al-Hidayah fi Sharh Bidayat al-Mubtadi (d. 593 AH/1197 CE) (الهداية في شرح بداية المبتدي, al-Hidāyah fī Sharḥ Bidāyat al-Mubtadī), commonly referred to as al-Hidayah (lit. "the guidance", also spelled HedayaCharles Hamilton (trans.) The Hedaya: Commentary on the Islamic Laws (Delhi) 1994 (2nd Edition 1870)), is a 12th-century legal manual by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, which is considered to be one of the most influential compendium of Hanafi jurisprudence (fiqh).
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.
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Apastamba Dharmasutra
Āpastamba Dharmasūtra (Sanskrit: आपस्तम्ब धर्मसूत्र) is a Sanskrit text and one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st millennium BCE.
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Aranyaka
The Aranyakas (आरण्यक; IAST) are a part of the ancient Indian Vedas concerned with the meaning of ritual sacrifice. Dharmaśāstra and Aranyaka are Hindu texts.
Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
Aurangzeb
Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as italics, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707.
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Āśrama (stage)
Āśrama (आश्रम) is a system of stages of life discussed in Hindu texts of the ancient and medieval eras.
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Baudhayana sutras
The (Sanskrit: बौधायन सूत्रस्) are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily ritual, mathematics and is one of the oldest Dharma-related texts of Hinduism that have survived into the modern age from the 1st-millennium BCE.
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Bengal
Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Bhakti
Bhakti (भक्ति; Pali: bhatti) is a term common in Indian religions which means attachment, fondness for, devotion to, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, or love.
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) is a research institute involved in the conservation, preservation, and research of old manuscripts and rare books related to Orientalism, particularly Indology.
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Bhashya
Bhashya is a "commentary" or "exposition" of any primary or secondary text in ancient or medieval Indian literature.
Bhāruci
Bhāruci's commentary (bhashya) on the Manu Smrti, or Laws of Manu, is part of the corpus of Dharmaśāstra texts available to us today. Dharmaśāstra and Bhāruci are Hindu texts and religious law.
Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
Brahmana
The Brahmanas (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणम्, IAST: Brāhmaṇam) are Vedic śruti works attached to the Samhitas (hymns and mantras) of the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva Vedas. Dharmaśāstra and Brahmana are Hindu texts.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Caṇḍeśvara Ṭhakkura
Caṇḍeśvara Thakkura was a Maithili-language political theorist and warrior during the 14th century.
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Colonial India
Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European colonial powers during the Age of Discovery.
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Dhammasattha
Dhammasattha ("treatise on the law") is the Pali name of a genre of literature found in the Indianized kingdoms of Western mainland Southeast Asia (modern Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, and Yunnan) principally written in Pali, Burmese, Mon or the Tai languages or in a bilingual nissaya or literal Pali translation (နိဿယ.). Dharmaśāstra and Dhammasattha are religious law.
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Dharma
Dharma (धर्म) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), among others.
Dharmaśāstra
Dharmaśāstra (धर्मशास्त्र) are Sanskrit Puranic Smriti texts on law and conduct, and refer to treatises (śāstras) on Dharma. Dharmaśāstra and Dharmaśāstra are ancient Indian law, Hindu texts and religious law.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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Eknath
Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: eknath) (1533–1599), was an Indian Hindu saint, philosopher and poet.
Fatawa 'Alamgiri
Fatawa 'Alamgiri, also known as Al-Fatawa al-'Alamgiriyya (الفتاوى العالمكيرية) or Al-Fatawa al-Hindiyya (الفتاوى الهندية), is a 17th-century sharia based compilation on statecraft, general ethics, military strategy, economic policy, justice and punishment, that served as the law and principal regulating body of the Mughal Empire, during the reign of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Muhiuddin Aurangzeb Alamgir.
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Gautama Dharmasutra
Gautama Dharmasūtra is a Sanskrit text and likely one of the oldest Hindu Dharmasutras (600-200 BCE), whose manuscripts have survived into the modern age.
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Govindachandra (Gahadavala dynasty)
Govindachandra (IAST: Govindacandra, 1114–1155 CE) was the King of Kannauj from 1114 to 1155 and was a member of the Gahadavala dynasty.
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Hemadpant
Hemādri Paṇḍita, popularly known as Hemāḍapanta, was a polymath and a prime minister from 1259 to 1274 CE during the reign of King Mahādev (1259–1271) and King Ramachandra (1271–1309) of the Seuna (Yadava) dynasty, which ruled the western and southern part of India.
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Hindu astrology
Hindu astrology, also called Indian astrology, Jyotisha (translit-script) and, more recently, Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology.
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Hindu law
Hindu law, as a historical term, refers to the code of laws applied to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs in British India. Dharmaśāstra and Hindu law are ancient Indian law and religious law.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Indian religions
Indian religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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Islam in South Asia
Islam is the second-largest religion in South Asia, with more than 650 million Muslims living there, forming about one-third of the region's population.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jimutavahana
Jīmūtavāhana (c. 12th century) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and writer of legal and religious treatises on Vaishnavism of early medieval period.
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Just war theory
The just war theory (bellum iustum) is a doctrine, also referred to as a tradition, of military ethics that aims to ensure that a war is morally justifiable through a series of criteria, all of which must be met for a war to be considered just.
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Kalpa (Vedanga)
Kalpa (कल्प) means "proper, fit" and is one of the six disciplines of the Vedānga, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of Hinduism. Dharmaśāstra and Kalpa (Vedanga) are Hindu texts.
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Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
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Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Kātyāyana
Kātyāyana (कात्यायन) also spelled as Katyayana (century BCE) was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who lived in ancient India.
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Kural
The Tirukkuṟaḷ (lit), or shortly the Kural (குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each.
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
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Mantra
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
Manusmriti
The Manusmṛti (मनुस्मृति), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many of Hinduism. Dharmaśāstra and Manusmriti are ancient Indian law.
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Mīmāṃsā
Mīmāṁsā (Sanskrit: मीमांसा; IAST: Mīmāṃsā) is a Sanskrit word that means "reflection" or "critical investigation" and thus refers to a tradition of contemplation which reflected on the meanings of certain Vedic texts.
Medhātithi
Medhātithi is one of the oldest and most famous commentators on the, more commonly known as the Laws of Manu.
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Mitākṣarā
The is a (legal commentary) on the Yajnavalkya Smriti best known for its theory of "inheritance by birth." It was written by Vijñāneśvara, a scholar in the Kalyani Chalukya court in the late eleventh century in the modern day state of Karnataka. Dharmaśāstra and Mitākṣarā are ancient Indian law.
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Moksha
Moksha (मोक्ष), also called vimoksha, vimukti, and mukti, is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, nirvana, or release.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Nāradasmṛti
is a part of the Dharmaśāstras, written in two recensions the south India Naradamanusamhita and Nepal, in Newari language that serves as a collection of legal maxims relating to the topic of dharma.
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Nirukta
Nirukta (निरुक्त,, "explained, interpreted") is one of the six ancient Vedangas, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of Hinduism.
Nyaya
Nyāya (Sanskrit:न्यायः, IAST:'nyāyaḥ'), literally meaning "justice", "rules", "method" or "judgment", is one of the six orthodox (Āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy.
Odisha
Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.
Pandurang Vaman Kane
Pandurang Vaman Kane (पांडुरंग वामन काणे; 7 May 1880 – 18 April 1972) was an Indian academic, historian, lawyer, Indologist, and Sanskrit scholar.
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Parsis
The Parsis (singular: Parsi) or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism.
Patrick Olivelle
Patrick Olivelle is an Indologist.
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Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Princely state
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.
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Puranas
Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore. Dharmaśāstra and Puranas are Hindu texts.
Puruṣārtha
Purushartha (Sanskrit: पुरुषार्थ, IAST) literally means "object(ive) of men".
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Raghunandana
Raghunandana (c. 16th century CE) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar from the Bengal region.
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Robert Lingat
Robert Lingat (Rō̜ Lǣngkā, โรแบร์ แลงกาต์, 1892 – 1972), was a French-born academic and legal scholar most known for his masterwork on the practice of classical Hindu Law.
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Samaveda
The Samaveda (सामवेद,, from सामन्, "song" and वेद, "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants. Dharmaśāstra and Samaveda are Hindu texts.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sanskrit prosody
Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies.
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Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith. Dharmaśāstra and Sharia are religious law.
Shastra
Shastra is a Sanskrit word that means "precept, rules, manual, compendium, book or treatise" in a general sense.
Shiksha
Shiksha (शिक्षा) is a Sanskrit word, which means "instruction, lesson, learning, study of skill". Dharmaśāstra and Shiksha are Hindu texts.
Shloka
Shloka or śloka (श्लोक, from the root श्रु, Macdonell, Arthur A., A Sanskrit Grammar for Students, Appendix II, p. 232 (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 1927). in a broader sense, according to Monier-Williams's dictionary, is "any verse or stanza; a proverb, saying"; but in particular it refers to the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre, used in the Bhagavad Gita and many other works of classical Sanskrit literature. Dharmaśāstra and Shloka are Hindu texts.
Sikhs
Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
Smriti
Smriti Literature in Hinduism (स्मृति, IAST) The smṛti texts are a body of Hindu texts usually attributed to an author, traditionally written down, in contrast to Śrutis (the Vedic literature) considered authorless, that were transmitted verbally across the generations and fixed. Dharmaśāstra and Smriti are Hindu texts.
Sutra
Sutra (translation)Monier Williams, Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Entry for, page 1241 in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text.
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Crown
The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states).
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Todar Mal
Raja Todar Mal (1 January 1500 – 8 November 1589) was an Indian minister, economist, and military commander who served as the Finance Minister (Diwan-i-Ashraff) of the Mughal empire during the reign of Akbar I. He was also the Vakil-us-Sultanat (Counsellor of the Empire) and Joint Wazir.
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Upanishads
The Upanishads (उपनिषद्) are late Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit texts that "document the transition from the archaic ritualism of the Veda into new religious ideas and institutions" and the emergence of the central religious concepts of Hinduism. Dharmaśāstra and Upanishads are Hindu texts.
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.
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Varna (Hinduism)
Varṇa (वर्ण), in the context of Hinduism, refers to a social class within a hierarchical traditional Hindu society.
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Vasishtha
Vasishtha (lit) is one of the oldest and revered Vedic rishis or sages, and one of the Saptarishis (seven great Rishis).
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Vīramitrodaya
The Vīramitrodaya refers to a Hindu law digest written by Mitra Miśra, a brahmin from Gopācala (present day Gwalior) which covers nearly every aspect of Dharmaśāstra.
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Vedanga
The Vedanga (वेदांग, "limb of the Veda-s"; plural form: वेदांगानि) are six auxiliary disciplines of Hinduism that developed in ancient times and have been connected with the study of the Vedas:James Lochtefeld (2002), "Vedanga" in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Dharmaśāstra and Vedas are Hindu texts.
Vidyaranya
Vidyaranya (IAST: Vidyāraṇya), usually identified with Mādhavācārya, was the jagadguru of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham from ca.
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Vishnu Smriti
Vishnu Smriti (IAST) is one of the latest books of the Dharmaśāstra tradition in Hinduism and the only one which does not deal directly with the means of knowing dharma. Dharmaśāstra and Vishnu Smriti are ancient Indian law.
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Vyākaraṇa
Vyākaraṇa refers to one of the six ancient Vedangas, ancillary science connected with the Vedas, which are scriptures in Hinduism.
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Warren Hastings
Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–1785.
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Yājñavalkya Smṛti
The Yajnavalkya Smriti (याज्ञवल्क्य स्मृति, IAST) is one of the many Dharma-related texts of Hinduism composed in Sanskrit.
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See also
Ancient Indian law
- Anuloma
- Buddhist law
- Classical Hindu law
- Classical Hindu law in practice
- Daṇḍa (Hindu punishment)
- Dharmaśāstra
- Diet in Hinduism
- Dāyabhāga
- Gentoo Code
- Hindu law
- Hindu titles of law
- History of Indian law
- Jain law
- Manusmriti
- Mitākṣarā
- Monarchy in ancient India
- Pratiloma
- Prāyaścitta
- Shukra-Niti
- Vijñāneśvara
- Vishnu Smriti
- Vyavahāra
- Vyavahāramālā
- Ācāra
Religious law
- Apostasy
- Banishment in the Torah
- Bhāruci
- Canon law
- Church tax
- Concordat
- Crimes in religion
- Damnation
- Dhammasattha
- Dharmaśāstra
- Divine law
- Dratshang Lhentshog
- Food and drink prohibitions
- Halachot Pesukot
- Halakha
- Heresy
- Hindu law
- Homosexuality in the Hebrew Bible
- Homosexuality in the New Testament
- Impiety
- Internal sin
- Jain law
- Jurisdictionalism
- Laicism
- Law of chastity
- Mandatory war
- Milkhemet Mitzvah
- Modesty guard
- Neetham
- Oral law
- Orthopraxy
- Parsi law
- Proprietary church
- Public funding of the Catholic Church in Italy
- Religion and abortion
- Religious Freedom Act
- Religious law
- Religious police
- Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork
- Ritual slaughter
- Sharia
- She'iltot
- Shunning
- Sin
- Staðamálin
- Synod
- The Bible and homosexuality
- Voluntary war
- Word of Wisdom (Latter Day Saints)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmaśāstra
Also known as Apastamba Smriti, Dharma Shastra, Dharmasastra, Dharmasastras, Dharmashastra, Dharmashastras, Dharmasutra, Dharmasutras, Dharmasūtras, Dharmaśāstras.
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