Gautama Dharmasutra
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Gautama Dharmasutra is an ancient Hindu legal and religious text, traditionally attributed to the sage Gautama, that outlines social duties, legal norms, and ritual practices.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dharmasutra
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Hindu legal text ⓘ Sanskrit text ⓘ ancient Indian religious text ⓘ |
| approximateDate | last centuries BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gautama school
NERFINISHED
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Srauta-sutra tradition ⓘ |
| attributedTo | Gautama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citedBy |
Medhatithi
NERFINISHED
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other medieval Dharmaśāstra commentators ⓘ |
| contains |
regulations on inheritance
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regulations on marriage ⓘ regulations on property ⓘ regulations on slavery and servants ⓘ rules for forest-dwellers (vanaprastha) ⓘ rules for householders (grihastha) ⓘ rules for renouncers (sannyasa) ⓘ rules for students (brahmacharya) ⓘ rules on crimes and punishments ⓘ rules on funerary rites ⓘ rules on mixed castes ⓘ rules on ritual purity ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
ashrama duties
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dharma ⓘ expiations for sins ⓘ food rules ⓘ gifts and charity ⓘ impurity and purification ⓘ inheritance rules ⓘ judicial procedure ⓘ king’s duties ⓘ legal norms ⓘ ordeals ⓘ penances ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ social duties ⓘ varna duties ⓘ witness testimony ⓘ |
| genre | Dharmaśāstra literature ⓘ |
| hasCommentary | medieval Sanskrit commentaries ⓘ |
| influenced | later Dharmaśāstra texts ⓘ |
| language | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| partOf | Kalpa literature ⓘ |
| period | ancient India ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Hinduism ⓘ |
| script | Devanagari (in modern editions) ⓘ |
| structure | aphoristic sutra style ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Hindu law studies
ⓘ
Indology ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
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