Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Series Introduction

Donald R. Davis, Jr.

Part I: History

1. Social and Literary History of Dharmaśāstra: The Foundational Texts

Patrick Olivelle

2. Social and Literary History of Dharmaśāstra: Commentaries and Legal Digests

Donald R. Davis, Jr. and David Brick

Part II: Topics

3. Epistemology of Law: dharmapramāṇa

Patrick Olivelle

4. Social Classes: varṇa

5. Orders of Life: āśrama

Patrick Olivelle

6. Rites of Passage: saṃskāra

7. The Vedic Student: brahmacārin

8. The Vedic Graduate: snātaka

9. Marriage and the Householder: vivāha, gṛhastha

Stephanie W. Jamison

10. Women: strīdharma

Stephanie W. Jamison

11. Children: putra, duhitṛ

̣Donald R. Davis, Jr.

12. Inheritance: dāyabhāga

13. Daily Duties: āhnika

14. Food and Dietary Rules: abhakṣya, abhojya

Patrick Olivelle

15. Gifting: dāna

16. Funeral and Ancestral Offerings: antyeṣṭi, śrāddha

Matthew R. Sayers

17. Impurity and Purification: āśauca, śauca

18. Ascetics: vānaprastha, pravrajita

Patrick Olivelle

19. Law during Emergencies: āpaddharma

20. King: rājadharma

21. Punishment: daṇḍa

22. Legal Procedure: vyavahāra

Patrick Olivelle

23. Titles of Law: vyavahārapada

24. Penance: prāyaścitta

25. Vows and Observances: vrata

Donald R. Davis, Jr.

26. Pilgrimage: tīrthayātrā

Knut A. Jacobsen

27. Images and Temples

Richard H. Davis

Part III: Influences

28. History of the Reception of Dharmaśāstra

Donald R. Davis, Jr.

29. A Buddhist Monastic Code as a Source for Indian Law

Gregory Schopen

Part IV: Interpretive Approaches

Ariel Glucklich

33. Self and Subjectivity: The Wandering Ascetic and the Manifest World

Jonardon Ganeri

34. Material Culture and Society: The Ancient Indian Alestake

35. Embodiment of Dharma in Animals

Andrea Gutiérrez

36. Vernacularization

Christian Lee Novetzke

37. Economics and Business as Vaiśya-Dharma

Donald R. Davis, Jr.