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Dharmasūtras: the law codes of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and Vasiṣṭha by Olivelle, Patrick. is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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The Dharmasutras are the four surviving works of the ancient Indian expert tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behaviour a community recognizes as binding on its members. Written in a pithy and aphoristic style and representing the culmination of a long tradition of scholarship, the Dharmasutras record intense disputes and divergent views on such subjects as the education of the young and their rites of passage, ritual procedures and religious ceremonies, marriage and marital rig
Who reads Dharmasūtras: the law codes of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and Vasiṣṭha?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Olivelle, Patrick.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191606045
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Law, Religion, Anthropology
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- Dharmasūtras : the law codes of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and Vasiṣṭha (2023)
- The Dharmasutras : The Law Codes of Ancient India (1999)
- Dharmasutras: The Law Codes of Apastamba, Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha (Sources on ancient Hindu law) (2000)
- The Dharmasutras : The Law Codes of Ancient India (2009)