Dharmasūtra Parallels: Containing the Dharmasūtras of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and VasiṣṭhaThe Dharmasutra Parallels present in a synoptic layout of the passages in the four Dharmasutras of Apastamba. Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha the deal with identical topics. The Dharmasutras represent the oldest extant codification of Law in ancient India. A close study of these early legal treatises is essential if we are to understand not only the legal but also the cultural and religious history of the three or four centuries prior to the common era, a period that saw the beginnings of many of the features that we commonly associate with Indian civilization. |
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| Title | Dharmasūtra Parallels: Containing the Dharmasūtras of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and Vasiṣṭha Sources of ancient Indian law |
| Editor | Patrick Olivelle |
| Translated by | Patrick Olivelle |
| Contributor | Richard Wilfred Lariviere |
| Publisher | Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 30, 2008 |
| ISBN | 8120829700, 9788120829701 |
| Length | 230 pages |
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