Dharmasastra
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 76 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5126-5236-7
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dharmasastra (Sanskrit: ???????????) is a genre of Sanskrit texts and refers to the sastra, or Indic branch of learning, pertaining to Hindu dharma, religious and legal duty. The voluminous textual corpus of Dharmasastra is primarily a product of the Brahmanical tradition in India and represents the elaborate scholastic system of an expert tradition. Because of its sophisticated jurisprudence, Dharmasastra was taken by early British colonial administrators to be the law of the land for Hindus in India. Ever since, Dharmasastra has been linked with Hindu law, despite the fact that its contents deal as much or more with religious life as with law. In fact, a separation of religion and law within Dharmasastra is artificial and has been repeatedly questioned. Others have, however, argued for a distinction of religious and secular law within Dharmasastra. Dharmasastra is important within the Hindu tradition—first, as a source of religious law...