The Laws of Manu (Classic Reprint): Or Manava Dharma-Sástra, Abridged English Translation - Couverture souple

John Murdoch

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330276655 ISBN 13 : 9781330276655

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Ancient law, modern context: a window into how one society defined duty, order, and daily life.

This edition presents The Laws of Manu as a foundational text of Hindu tradition, with commentary that explains its origins, its many branches, and its lasting influence on ritual, caste duties, and social norms.

• Learn how sacred texts are categorized and what that means for the laws that govern behavior.
• Explore the different Sutras and their roles in teaching sacrifices, domestic rites, and everyday conduct.
• See how rules about marriage, inheritance, and the duties of king and family shaped historical practice.
• Understand how funeral rites and rites of passage were described and why they mattered to communities.

Ideal for readers of ancient law, religious history, and cultural studies.

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Excerpt from The Laws of Manu: Or Manava Dharma-Sástra, Abridged English Translation

Sruti and Smriti. - The sacred books of the Hindus are divided into two great classes, called Sruti and Smriti. Sruti, which means 'hearing' denotes direct revelation; Smriti, 'recollection' includes the sacred books which are admitted to have been composed by human authors.

Classed under Sruti, are the Vedas, the Brahmanas, and the Upanishads. Smriti, in its widest sense, includes almost the whole of post-vedic literature The principal divisions are the six Vedangas, the Smarta-Sutras, the Dharma-Sastras or Law Books, the Epic Poems, the eighteen Puranas, and the Upa-Puranas.

Yajur Veda. - The Rig-Veda denotes the Veda of hymns of praise. The Sama-Veda contains extracts from the Rig-Veda, arranged for the purpose of being chanted at sacrifices. The Atharva-Veda is of later origin than the others. It is sometimes called the Cursing Veda, because it contains so many mantras supposed to be able to cause the destruction of enemies.

The Yajur-Veda will be noticed rather more at length from its close connection with the Dharma-Satras. The name comes from yaj, 'sacrifice.' It contains the formulas and verses to be muttered by the priests and their assistants who had chiefly to prepare the sacrificial ground, to dress the altar, slay the victims, and pour out the libations.

The first sentences in one of the two divisions were to be uttered by the priest as he cut from a particular tree a switch with which to drive away the calves from the cows whose milk was to furnish the material of the offering.

There are two principal texts of the Yajur-Veda, called respectively the White and the Black, or the Vajasaneyi and Taittiriya Sanhitas. The Vishnu Purana gives the followiug explanation of their names: Vaisampayana, a pupil of the great Vyasa, was the original teacher of the Black Yajur-Veda. Yajnavalkya, one of his disciples, having displeased him,…

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330276655
• ISBN 13: 9781330276655
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
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