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or Laws of Manu (see
DHARMA
). The
Y
jñavalkyasm
ti
has had an indirect influence upon modern Indian law
via
the commentary of Vijñ
ne
vara.

 
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Dharma-successor
(one in succession of Buddhist teachers)
:

see
HASSU
.

 
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(Skt.,
dharma
, ‘law’ +
s
tra
, ‘aphorism’). Any of a class of Sanskrit prose texts concerned with law and rules of conduct (
dharma
). Dharmas
tras differ from
dharma
stras
in that the former consist of prose or mingled prose and verse, while the latter consist exclusively of verse. Dharmas
tras tend to be briefer than dharma
stras, consisting of terse
s
tras
or aphorisms which are seldom arranged in any systematic fashion.
Major dharmas
tras include the
G
utama-dharmas
tra
,
B
udh
yana-dharmas
tra