The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law
A New History of Dharmaś?stra
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 December 2017
- ISBN 9780198702603
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages572 pages
- Size 241x164x39 mm
- Weight 996 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmasastra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part One provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written with attention to chronology and historical developments. Part Two presents descriptive and historical studies of all the major substantive topics of Dharmasastra.
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Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmaś?stra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part One provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written with attention to chronology and historical developments. This study divides the tradition into its two major historical periods--the origins and formation of the classical texts and the later genres of commentary and digest--in order to provide a thorough, but manageable overview of the textual bases of the tradition. Part Two presents descriptive and historical studies of all the major substantive topics of Dharmasastra. Each chapter offers readers with salest knowledge of the debates, transformations, and fluctcating importance of each topic. Indirectly, readers will also gain insight into the ethos or worldview of religious law in Hinduism, enabling them to get a feel for how dharma authors thought and why. Part Three contains brief studies of the impact and reception of Dharmasastra in other South Asian cultural and textual traditions. Finally, Part Four draws inspiration from "critical terms" in contemporary legal and religious studies to analyze Dharmasastra texts. Contributors offer interpretive views of Dharmasastra that start from hermeneutic and social concerns today.
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Table of Contents:
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
PART I: HISTORY
Social and Literary History of Dharmaś?stra: The Foundational Texts
Social and Literary History of Dharmaś?stra: Commentaries and Legal Digests
PART II: TOPICS
Epistemology of Law: dharmapram??a
Social Classes: var?a
Orders of Life: ?śrama
Rites of Passage: sa?sk?ra
The Vedic Student: brahmac?rin
The Vedic Graduate: sn?taka
Marriage and the Householder: viv?ha, g?hastha
Women: str?dharma
Children: putra, duhit?
Inheritance: d?yabh?ga
Daily Duties: ?hnika
Food and Dietary Rules: abhak?ya, abhojya
Gifting: d?na
Funeral and Ancestral Offerings: antye??i, śr?ddha
Impurity and Purification: ?śauca
Ascetics: pravrajita, v?naprastha
Law During Emergencies: ?paddharma
King: r?jadharma
Punishment: da??a
Legal Procedure: vyavah?ra
Titles of Law: vyavah?rapada
Penance: pr?yaścitta
Vows and Observances: vrata
Pilgrimage: t?rthay?tr?
Images and Temples: prati??h?
PART III: INFLUENCES
History of the Reception of Dharmaś?stra
A Buddhist Vinaya as a Source for Indian Law
Part IV: INTERPRETIVE APPROACHES
Body
h Chapter 31:
Ritual
Self and Subjectivity: The Wandering Ascetic and the Manifest World
Material Culture and Society: The Ancient Indian Alestake
Embodiment of Dharma in Animals
Vernacularization
Economics and Business as vaiśyadharma
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