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== Dharma Classification ==
== Dharma Classification ==
Manifold are the topics that have been included under the Dharmasastra from very ancient times. Classification of dharma was primarily based on Shrutis (Vedic texts and rites) and Smritis (Classes and Stages of life). From very ancient times truth is exalted above everything else. Rig veda (7.104.2) says <blockquote>''"True speech and false speech run a race against each other. Soma protects out of the two what is true and what is very straight-forward and strikes down what is false."'' </blockquote>The conception of rta in the Rigveda is a sublime one and is the germ of the later doctrine of the rule of dharma. The Dharmasutras of Gautama, Baudhayana, Apastamba, and Vasishta deal in greater or less detail prinicipally the following subjects:
Manifold are the topics that have been included under the Dharmasastra from very ancient times. Classification of dharma was primarily based on Shrutis (Vedic texts and rites) and Smritis (Classes and Stages of life). From very ancient times truth is exalted above everything else. Rig veda (7.104.2) says <blockquote>''"True speech and false speech run a race against each other. Soma protects out of the two what is true and what is very straight-forward and strikes down what is false."'' </blockquote>The conception of rta in the Rigveda is a sublime one and is the germ of the later doctrine of the rule of dharma. The Dharmasutras of Gautama, Baudhayana, Apastamba, and Vasishta deal in greater or less detail principally the following subjects:
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* Varna dharma (four classes)
* Ashramas (Brahmachari, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, Sanyasi)Dharmas
* Samskaras (performed on an individual)
* Asaucha and Suddhi (Purification of persons, vessals, clothes)
* Panchamahayajnas (yajnas to expiate the 5 debts of man)
* Dana (Charity)
* Antyesthi (performed on the deceased)
* Shraddha (performed for deceased ancestors and relatives)
* Stridharma (special duties of women)
* Stri-Purusha dharma(duties of husband and wife)
* Vyavahara (judicial procedures and laws)
* Apattdharma (actions permitted in extreme difficulties)
* Prayaschitta(sins and how to expiate them)
* Karmavipaka (results of evil deeds in past lives)
* Shanti prakriya(rites for propitiating planets)}}
#dharmik perspective of life ('''dharmik jeevan dristi''')
#dharmik perspective of life ('''dharmik jeevan dristi''')