Baudhayana Dharmasutra
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The Baudhayana Dharmasutra is an ancient Sanskrit text of the Dharmasutra genre that outlines social, legal, and religious duties within early Vedic Hindu society.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baudhayana Grihyasutra | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dharmasutra
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Hindu legal text ⓘ Sanskrit text ⓘ Smriti text ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Taittiriya school of the Krishna Yajurveda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attributedTo | Baudhayana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Hindu ethics text
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Hindu law book ⓘ |
| classification | early Hindu jurisprudence text ⓘ |
| concerns |
conduct of twice-born males
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domestic rites ⓘ expiations for sins ⓘ judicial procedures ⓘ property rights ⓘ |
| focus |
maintenance of ritual purity
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norms for householders ⓘ regulation of social order ⓘ |
| genre | Dharmashastra literature ⓘ |
| influenced | later Dharmashastra tradition ⓘ |
| language | Sanskrit ⓘ |
| partOf | Baudhayana corpus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | early Dharmasutra period ⓘ |
| presupposes | Vedic authority ⓘ |
| region | ancient India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Baudhayana Grihyasutra
NERFINISHED
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Baudhayana Shrautasutra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Hinduism ⓘ |
| script | Devanagari (in modern editions) ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | secondary to the Vedas ⓘ |
| structure | sutra format ⓘ |
| subject |
Vedic ritual practice
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ashrama duties ⓘ dharma ⓘ inheritance rules ⓘ king’s duties ⓘ legal duties ⓘ marriage rules ⓘ penances ⓘ purification rites ⓘ religious duties ⓘ social duties ⓘ varna duties ⓘ |
| textType | aphoristic prose ⓘ |
| transmittedAs | part of oral scholastic tradition ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Brahmin communities
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Vedic ritual specialists ⓘ |
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Baudhayana Grihyasutra