dharma

yatra dharmas tathaivarthah kamas caivanuvarnitah | trivarga iti vikhyato gana esa svayambhuva | caturtho moksa ity eva prthag arthah prthag ganah || In which dharma, artha, and kama were described.

Citing high religious significance of the festival, Jinvani will introduce a number of Apart from that, Jinvani will also present a series of special packages based on Dus Dharmas of Jain religion (ten virtues: Uttam kshama, Mardav, Aarjav, Satya, Shaucha, Samyam, Tap, Tyag, Aakinchinya and Brahmacharya) exclusively for the occasion.

Later Mimamsakas think of dharmas as eternal reality manifested in the rituals and their consequences.

This is the case in the narrative of the Mahapadesa in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta (DN 16, Part 4.8-11 and AN 4.180), the account of the Buddha's last days, where one would expect to find those teachings that the Buddha--or those who redacted the early Buddhist canon--considered most important, and thought essential for the survival of the Dharma. In that passage, Sakyamuni instructs that even when the source of teachings, rules, or practices is a monastic who claims to have heard the dharmas "from the Lord Buddha's own lips," or directly from an elder, elders, or a community with elders and distinguished teachers, who are "learned, bearers of the tradition, who know the Dhamma, the discipline, the code of rules," the practitioner still must not outright accept or reject their claims.

Because Olivelle does not fill his sourcebook with primary rules he has scope to bring in material from ancient intellectual disciplines outside but adjacent to Dharmas'astra, namely what he calls Vedic exegesis (Mimamsa), Sanskrit grammar (Vyakarana), and political science (Arthasastra), with readings from Sabara and Kumarila, Patanjali, and Kautilya, respectively.

dharmas ca vyavaharas ca caritram rajasasanam I catuspad vyavaharo 'yam uttarah purvabadhakah II

(21) In the strong sense, atmatusti creates dharma, as in Medhatithi's striking statement: "even adharma becomes dharma, and dharma becomes adharma'' (adharmo 'pi dharmatam eti dharmas cadharmatam).

For the first time in its 52-year history, the Graduate Theological Union will offer a dedicated curriculum in Hinduism, beginning this fall, as the initial step toward establishment of a Center for Dharma Studies.

Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative.

I will claim that Indian Buddhist cultural understandings of textual discourses resulted in individual and group domestic worship of texts, the veneration of copies of satras owned by dharmabharyikas, and the veneration of dharmabhatzakas as Buddhas who embodied the dharma texts that they recited.

Vajpeyi writes on the special Dharmas[a.bar]stric compendia that were composed during the late medieval period to explain the dharma of low-caste S[u.bar]dras.

Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India: The Apaddharmaparvan of the Mahabharata.