Edited by Patrick Olivelle and Donald R. Davis
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction, Donald R. Davis, Jr.
PART I: HISTORY
1. Social and Literary History of Dharmasastra: The Foundational Texts, Patrick Olivelle
2. Social and Literary History of Dharmasastra: Commentaries and Legal Digests, Donald R.
Davis, Jr. and David Brick
PART II: TOPICS
3. Epistemology of Law: dharmapramana, Patrick Olivelle
4. Social Classes: varna, Mikael Aktor
5. Orders of Life: asrama, Patrick Olivelle
6. Rites of Passage: sanskara, Axel Michaels
7. The Vedic Student: brahmacarin, Timothy
Lubin
8. The Vedic Graduate: snataka, Timothy Lubin
9. Marriage and the Householder: vivaha, grhastha, Stephanie W. Jamison
10. Women: stridharma, Stephanie W. Jamison
11. Children: putra, duhitr, Donald R. Davis, Jr.
12. Inheritance: dayabhaga, Ludo Rocher
13. Daily Duties:
ahnika, Timothy Lubin
14. Food and Dietary Rules: abhaksya, abhojya, Patrick Olivelle
15. Gifting: dana, David Brick
16. Funeral and Ancestral Offerings: antyesti, sraddha, Matthew R. Sayers
17. Impurity and Purification: asauca, Mikael Aktor
18. Ascetics: pravrajita,
vanaprastha, Patrick Olivelle
19. Law During Emergencies: apaddharma, Adam Bowles
20. King: rajadharma, Mark McClish
21. Punishment: danda, Mark McClish
22. Legal Procedure: vyavahara, Patrick Olivelle
23. Titles of Law: vyavaharapada, Mark McClish
24. Penance: prayascitta,
David Brick
25. Vows and Observances: vrata, Donald R. Davis, Jr.
26. Pilgrimage: tirthayatra, Knut A. Jacobsen
27. Images and Temples: pratistha, Richard H. Davis
PART III: INFLUENCES
28. History of the Reception of Dharmasastra, Donald R. Davis, Jr.
29. A Buddhist Vinaya as
a Source for Indian Law, Gregory Schopen
Part IV: INTERPRETIVE APPROACHES
30. Body, Ariel Glucklich
31. h 31:, Maria Heim
32. Ritual, Axel Michaels
33. Self and Subjectivity: The Wandering Ascetic and the Manifest World, Jonardon Ganeri
34. Material Culture and Society: The
Ancient Indian Alestake, James McHugh
35. Embodiment of Dharma in Animals, Andrea Gutierrez
36. Vernacularization, Christian Lee Novetzke
37. Economics and Business as vaisyadharma, Donald R. Davis, Jr.
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Patrick Olivelle is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the ancient Indian legal tradition of Dharmasastra. Olivelle has won several prestigious fellowships, including Guggenheim, NEH, and ACLS. He was elected Vice
President of the American Oriental Society in 2004 and President in 2005. He is the editor of A Dharma Reader: Classical Indian Law (Columbia University Press, 2016).
Donald R. Davis is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His
current research broadens his interest in the practice of Hindu law in historical perspective, using materials beyond the Dharmasastra texts and from many parts of medieval India.
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