The Law Code of Visnu : A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Vaisnava-Dharmasastra Hardback
Edited by Patrick Olivelle
Part of the Harvard Oriental Series series
Hardback
Description
The Law Code of Viṣṇu (Vaiṣṇava-DharmaÅ›Ästra) is one of the latest of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century CE in Kashmir.
Both because the Vaiṣṇava-DharmaÅ›Ästra is the only DharmaÅ›Ästra that can be geographically located and because it introduces some interesting and new elements into the discussion of DharmaÅ›Ästric topics, this is a document of interest both to scholars of Indian legal literature and to cultural historians of India, especially of Kashmir.
The new elements include the first DharmaÅ›Ästric evidence for a wife burning herself at her husband’s cremation and the intrusion of devotional religion (bhakti) into DharmaÅ›Ästras. This volume contains a critical edition of the Sanskrit text based on fifteen manuscripts, an annotated English translation, and an introduction evaluating its textual history, its connections to previous DharmaÅ›Ästras, its date and provenance, its structure and content, and the use made of it by later medieval writers.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:560 pages, 6 halftones
- Publisher:The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
- Publication Date:01/04/2010
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- ISBN:9780674051393
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:560 pages, 6 halftones
- Publisher:The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
- Publication Date:01/04/2010
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- ISBN:9780674051393
