The Oxford History of Hinduism · Hindu Law by Olivelle, Patrick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Preface Table of Contents List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Series Introduction Introduction

Intellectual Project and Elite Ideology History and Innovation Ritual and The Love of Details Arbiter of Orthodoxy in a Polycentric Tradition Structure of The Book and Contemporary Scholarship

Part I: History

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

The Early Textual Production Innovations of Manu Dharmaśāstras After Manu Extinction of Dharmaśāsstric Texts

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

The Nature of Commentaries Why Digests? Major Commentators and Digest Authors

Part II: Topics

3. Epistemology of Law: dharmapramāṇa 4. Social Classes: varṇa

VarṆa as Dharma Power The Essentials: Svabhāva, Svakarman, Svadharma Controlling Social and Economic Mobility The Mixed Classes The Untouchables Mobility Control, Brahmin Frailty, and Theories of Caste

5. Orders of Life: āśrama 6. Rites of Passage: saṃskāra

The Term SaṂskāra Sources History of SaṂskāras The Traditional Hindu Rites of Passage SaṂskāras as Rituals of Transcendence

7. The Vedic Student: brahmacārin

The Student in the Earliest Sources The Student in the Vedic Domestic Ritual Codes (GṚhyasūtras) The Requirements of Brahmacarya The Rules For Study of Special Parts of the Veda: Veda-Vratas The Duty of Private Recitation Studentship as the First Profession (Āśrama) of an Ārya

8. The Vedic Graduate: snātaka

The Snātaka’s Distinctive Dharma The Graduate Snātaka as Intermediate Between Veda-Student and the Householder The Married Householder Snātaka Snātaka as a Brahmin Under Special Vows Conclusion

9. Marriage and the Householder: vivāha, gṛhastha

Householder Marriage Legal Relationship of Husband and Wife: Ownership? Responsiblities of Husband and Wife Dissolution of Marriage

10. Women: strīdharma

(Lack of) Independence and Legal Status Ritual Status Property and Inheritance (Alternative) Roles For Women

11. Children: putra, duhitṛ

Minority and Majority The Twelve Sons Daughters and Kinship Conclusions

12. Inheritance: dāyabhāga

Hindu Inheritance in the SmṚtis Hindu Inheritance in the Sanskrit Commentaries Hindu Inheritance in British Hands The Death of the Hindu Law of Inheritance

13. Daily Duties: āhnika

Daily Duties as a Model for “Everyday Veda” A Category in Development The Purifications The Acts of Worship Bringing the Elements Together Conclusion

14. Food and Dietary Rules: abhakṣya, abhojya 15. Gifting: dāna

Proper Recipients Non-Reciprocity Later Developments

16. Funeral and Ancestral Offerings: antyeṣṭi, śrāddha

Vedic Model of Funeral and Ancestral Offerings Domestic Model of Funeral and Ancestral Offerings Shifting Ritual Paradigms Reflections on Ancestral Rites in the Legal Tradition Resolving the Details The Ritualist and the Renouncer The Educated Ritual Discourse and the Untextualized Traditions

17. Impurity and Purification: āśauca, śauca

Purification as a Priestly Competence Types of Impurity Impurities and Purification of the Body and Property Death Impurity An Example: Purification of a House Internal Impurity Interpretations: The Contributions from Social Anthropology

18. Ascetics: vānaprastha, pravrajita

Forest Hermit Wandering Mendicant

19. Law during Emergencies: āpaddharma

The Core Principle Manu, Mahābhārata, and The Expansion of āpaddharma

20. King: rājadharma

The “The Laws for Kings”: An Overview “The Whole Duty of the King” Conclusion

21. Punishment: daṇḍa 22. Legal Procedure: vyavahāra 23. Titles of Law: vyavahārapada

The Origins of the Vyavahārapadas and the Nīti Tradition The Vyavahārapadas in the Dharmasūtras The Vyavahārapadas in the Dharmaśāstras Conclusion

24. Penance: prāyaścitta 25. Vows and Observances: vrata

The Semantic Development of Vrata as A Topic Of Dharmaśāstra Elements of Standard Vratas in Dharmaśāstra The Centrality of Vows in Contemporary Hinduism

26. Pilgrimage: tīrthayātrā

Origin of Hindu Pilgrimage Pilgrimage Places and Pilgrimage in The Dharmanibandhas Rules and Regulation

27. Images and Temples

Orthodox Iconophobes Vedic Iconodules A Theistic Dharmaśāstra Purānic Theists THEISTS Outside Smṛti

Part III: Influences

28. History of the Reception of Dharmaśāstra

The Influence of Dharmaśāstra on Expert Traditions in Sanskrit The Role of Dharmaśāstra in Epigraphical and Documentary Sources Dharmaśāstra and the Invention of “Hindu Law” Under Colonialism Relevance of Dharmaśāstra After India’s Independence

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

Part IV: Interpretive Approaches

30. Body

Introduction The Metaphorical Body The Transgressing Body The Ascetic Body The Homological Body (God and Brahmin) The Transitional Body

31. Emotions

Emotions and the Social Order Emotion in Ritual and Law Unruly Emotions Conclusions

32. Ritual

Defining Ritual Ritual Structure And “Grammar” RITUAL THEORY

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

The Wandering Ascetic’s Inattentional Awareness Manu’s Genesis Narrative as Phenomenological Genealogy Ascetic Awareness: a Cultivated Cognitive Skill

34. Material Culture and Society: The Ancient Indian Alestake 35. Embodiment of Dharma in Animals

In Animal Terms Religious History as Body History: Human and Animal Bodies Animals as Extension of the Dharmic Body Fractured Constructions of Beings and Co-Constituted Bodies Conclusion: Becoming Animal

36. Vernacularization

Introduction Dharmaśāstra in the Brahmanical Ecumene of the Yadava Century Dharma and Social Ethics in the Līḷ ācaritra Conclusion

37. Economics and Business as Vaiśya-Dharma

Where is Vaiśya Dharma? From Economics to Dharma: the Commercial Titles of Law

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