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== Dharma Classification ==

== Dharma Classification ==

Manifold are the topics that have been included under the Dharmasastra from very ancient times.  From very ancient times '''''Truth''''' is exalted above everything else. Rig veda (7.104.12) says    <blockquote>सुविज्ञानं चिकितुषे जनाय सच्चासच्च वचसी पस्पृधाते । तयोर्यत्सत्यं यतरदृजीयस्तदित्सोमोऽवति हन्त्यासत् ॥१२॥</blockquote><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:  

Manifold are the topics that have been included under the Dharmasastra from very ancient times.  From very ancient times '''''Truth''''' is exalted above everything else. Rig veda (7.104.12) says    <blockquote>सुविज्ञानं चिकितुषे जनाय सच्चासच्च वचसी पस्पृधाते । तयोर्यत्सत्यं यतरदृजीयस्तदित्सोमोऽवति हन्त्यासत् ॥१२॥</blockquote><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 Dharmas''' (four classes)

* '''Varna Dharmas''' (four classes)  

* '''Ashrama Dharmas''' (Brahmachari, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, Sanyasi)

* '''Ashrama Dharmas''' (Brahmachari, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, Sanyasi)  

* '''Samskaras''' (performed on an individual)

* '''Samskaras''' (performed on an individual)  

* '''Asaucha and Suddhi''' (Purification of persons, vessals, clothes)

* '''Panchamahayajnas''' (yajnas to expiate the 5 debts of man)

* '''Suddhi''' (Purification of persons, vessals, clothes)  

* '''Dana''' (Charity)

* '''Dana''' (Charity)  

* '''Antyesthi''' (performed on the deceased)

* '''Asaucha''' (impurity during birth and death)  

* '''Shraddha''' (performed for deceased ancestors and relatives)

* '''Antyesthi''' (performed on the deceased)  

* '''Stridharma''' (special duties of women)

* '''Shraddha''' (performed for deceased ancestors and relatives)  

* '''Stri-Purusha Dharmas''' (duties of husband and wife)

* '''Stridharma''' (special duties of women)  

* '''Vyavahara''' (judicial procedures and laws)

* '''Stri-Purusha Dharmas''' (duties of husband and wife)  

* '''Apattdharmas''' (actions permitted in extreme difficulties)

* '''Vyavahara''' (judicial procedures and laws)  

* '''Prayaschitta''' (sins and how to expiate them)

* '''Apattdharmas''' (actions permitted in extreme difficulties)  

* '''Karmavipaka''' (results of evil deeds in past lives)

* '''Prayaschitta''' (sins and how to expiate them)  

* '''Karmavipaka''' (results of evil deeds in past lives)  

* '''Shanti prakriya''' (rites for propitiating planets)}}  

* '''Shanti prakriya''' (rites for propitiating planets)}}