RT Book
T1 Yajnavalkya: a treatise on dharma
T2 Murty Classical Library of India
JF Murty Classical Library of India
A1 Yājñavalkya ca. 1. Jh.
A2 Olivelle, Patrick 1942-
A2 Olivelle, Patrick 1942-
LA English
PP Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
PB Harvard University Press
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1645975525
AB A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the finest example of the genre of dharmaśāstra--texts on religious, civil, and criminal law and the duties of rulers--that informed Indian life for a thousand years. It illuminates major cultural innovations, such as the prominence of documents in commercial and legal proceedings, the use of ordeals in resolving disputes, and the growing importance of yoga in spiritual practices. Composed by an anonymous author during the reign of the imperial Guptas, the Treatise is ascribed to the Upanishadic philosopher Yajnavalkya, whose instruction of a group of sages serves as the frame narrative for the work. It became the most influential legal text in medieval India, and a twelfth-century interpretation came to be considered "the law of the land" under British rule. This translation of A Treatise on Dharma, based on a new critical edition and presented alongside the Sanskrit original in the Devanagari script, opens the classical age of ancient Indian law to modern readers.--
NO Enthält Anhanz zu dem Text, Glossar, Bibliografie und Index
CN KNS127.8.A4
SN 9780674277069
SN 0674277066
K1 Hindu Law : Early works to 1800
K1 Inheritance and succession (Hindu law) : Early works to 1800
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