Smṛtis
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Codes of Tradition · sacred treatises · the Smṛti · treatise on dharma
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Smṛti“treatise text as object”1 mention
Bṛhaspati Smṛti (Sanskrit)
Gold, fire, water, and the treatises on *dharma*— the king should place these pure and beneficial things in the middle of the court.
in the texts
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The codes of tradition, named as a category of text whose injunctions do not constitute codanā in the strict sense.
That alone is *codanā* which is characterized by the indicators found in the *Śruti*, such as the optative mood (Liṅ), the imperative mood (Loṭ), and the gerundive suffix (Tavya)—not that which is enjoined by the Purāṇas (a class of post-Vedic narrative scriptures) or the *Smṛtis* (Codes of Tradition).
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
The body of legal/textual tradition (Smṛti), personified as one of the ten limbs of the court, functioning to declare decisions and punishments.
Gold, fire, water, and the treatises on *dharma*— the king should place these pure and beneficial things in the middle of the court.
The Smṛti declares the decision, the award of victory, and the punishment;
the assessors are the arms, the Smṛti the hands, and the accountant and scribe the shanks.