Holy Writ
“Shruti/Shastra”
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Shastra · Shruti
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Scripture referenced as an example of contested textual authority that this particular case does not require interpreting.
It does not depend upon an interpretation of Holy Writ in which many people find many things they cannot understand, nor upon the decrees of any one nation of which the rest of the world very properly knows nothing.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
The Hindu scriptural authority (Shruti/Shastra) grounding the practice of Dharma.
Holy Writ, which ordains the practice of Dharma, does not admit of a doubt.
Dharma should be learnt from the Shruti (Holy Writ), and from those conversant with it.
*Dharma* is obedience to the command of the Shastra or Holy Writ of the Hindoos to do certain things, such as the performance of sacrifices, which are not generally done because they do not belong to this world, and produce no visible effect;