The Dharmasutras: The Law Codes of Apastamba, Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha

by Patrick Olivelle

Book Overview

The Dharmasutras are the four surviving written works of the ancient Indian tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behavior a community recognizes as binding on its members.
Written in a pithy and aphoristic style and representing the culmination of a long tradition of scholarship, the Dharmasutras record intense disputes and divergent views on such subjects as the education of the young, rites of passage, marriage and marital rights,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192838822
• ISBN13: 9780192838827
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.7" x 5.0"