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Vasiṣṭha Dharmasūtra (The Sacred Law of Vasiṣṭha)
वासिष्ठधर्मसूत्र / वासिष्ठधर्मशास्त्र (Vāsiṣṭha Dharmasūtra / Dharmaśāstra)
A prose manual with interspersed verses, in thirty chapters, on the rules of conduct: the sources of dharma, the four social classes, the stages of life (student, householder, hermit, ascetic), purity, women, inheritance, adoption, lawful interest on loans, the king and penances. It ends with a chapter of maxims and a salutation to Vasiṣṭha, 'son of Mitra and Varuṇa and of Urvaśī'.
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Authorship note
Treatise of a vanished Vedic school (Bühler) that presents itself as Vasiṣṭha's teaching and invokes him three times; Olivelle regards it as the latest of the four surviving dharmasūtras, with later additions. The attribution is traditional.
Editions and translations
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English
Dharmasūtras: The Law Codes of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and Vasiṣṭha
Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 1999
Translation: Patrick Olivelle
ISBN 9780192838827
Vasishtha
The Sacred Laws of the Âryas, Part II: Vâsishtha and Baudhâyana (SBE 14)
The Conscious LibraryThe Sacred Laws of the Âryas, Part II: Vâsishtha and Baudhâyana (SBE 14)
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1882
Translation: Georg Bühler
Dominio público. Reimpresión Motilal Banarsidass.
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Vasishtha
वासिष्ठधर्मशास्त्रम् (texto sánscrito)
The Conscious Libraryवासिष्ठधर्मशास्त्रम् (texto sánscrito)
Wikisource
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Sources
- Bühler, Georg (trad.). The Sacred Laws of the Âryas as Taught in the Schools of Âpastamba, Gautama, Vâsishtha, and Baudhâyana. Part II: Vâsishtha and Baudhâyana. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882 (Sacred Books of the East 14). Introducción a Vasiṣṭha, pp. ix–xxviii; cap. XXX.
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