Gautama Dharmasūtra
by Gautama | 1879 | 41,849 words
The topics in this Dharmasūtra are devoted to the student, the order of a person's life (āśramas), the householder, occupations of the four classes, the king, impurity, ancestral offerings, women and marriage, property, inheritance and penances. Gautama's Dharmasūtra is believed to be the oldest of the four Hindu Dharmasastras, It survives as an i...
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The Sacred Laws of the Āryas
AS TAUGHT IN THE SCHOOLS OF
ĀPASTAMBA, GUATAMA, VĀSIṢṬHA, AND BUDHĀYANA
Translated by Georg Bühler
Part I
Āpastamba and Gautama
Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 2
Oxford: The Clarendon Press
[1879]
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