The sources of Viṣṇu Smṛti

1. Veda unspecified Vedic tradition 3 authority 3 citations · 13 passages

   chapter 1 5 passages anchored here · chapter 3 · chapter 37 2 passages anchored here · chapter 51 · chapter 68 · chapter 71 2 passages anchored here · chapter 82

   The Vedas are repeatedly invoked throughout as the supreme textual/ritual authority underlying both the cosmogony and the legal-social order.

   He created the guardians of places, the guardians of the worlds, the rivers, mountains, and trees, The seven sages learned in *dharma*, the Vedas with their ancillary sciences, and the gods and anti-gods;

2. Bhagavad Gita 1 neutral · 1 extended 2 citations · 3 passages

   chapter 27 · chapter 72 · chapter 73

   An explanatory footnote within the window explicitly names the Bhagavad Gita as a parallel source, though the parallel verses themselves are outside this window's chapters.

   47-53), are identical or closely parallel to verses in the Bhagavad Gita (e.

3. Gāyatrī mantra 2 authority 2 citations

   chapter 83 · chapter 89

   Explicitly named as a devotional practice qualifying a Brāhmaṇa in ch. 83.

   One devoted to muttering the Gāyatrī mantra.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

chapter 1 1 source

Upanishads

chapter 3 1 source

rājadharma teaching (unspecified prior tradition of kingship)

chapter 5 1 source

traditional teaching on ātatāyins ("others say")

chapter 23 1 source

the gods' ordinance on purity

chapter 28 1 source

Ṛg Veda, Yajur Veda, Sāma Veda, Atharva Veda

chapter 30 1 source

Purāṇas, Itihāsas, and Dharmaśāstras

chapter 46 1 source

Aghamarṣaṇa prayer

chapter 47 1 source

Doctrine of the seven sages, Brahma, and Rudra performing the lunar vow

chapter 48 1 source

Barley-invocation mantra to Brahma

chapter 50 1 source

Ṛgveda (Ṛg verses)

chapter 55 3 sources

Aghamarṣaṇa hymn · Gāyatrī/Sāvitrī mantra · Ṛg verse (tat savitur / Gāyatrī foot)

chapter 56 1 source

Puruṣasūkta

chapter 64 5 sources

Drupadā Sāvitrī · hiraṇyavarṇāḥ (Vedic verses) · tadviṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padam · yuñjate manaḥ (Vedic section) · āpo hi ṣṭhā (Vedic water verses)

chapter 71 1 source

Smṛti

chapter 73 2 sources

Dharmaśāstras · Itihāsas and Purāṇas

chapter 78 1 source

Pitṛgītā (verses sung by the ancestors)

chapter 83 3 sources

Jyeṣṭha Sāman · Nāciketa section of the Veda (Kaṭha tradition) · Trisuparṇa section

chapter 90 1 source

Vaiṣṇava, Śākra, and Bārhaspatya mantras

chapter 96 1 source

Doctrine of the field and the knower of the field (kṣetra/kṣetrajña)

chapter 97 1 source

Sāṃkhya doctrine of twenty-four/twenty-five principles

chapter 100 1 source

Vishnu Dharmashastra (this text)

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1. Vīramitrodaya Mitra Miśra 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages

   chapter 1 3 passages anchored here

   Introduced with 'In the smṛtis of Viṣṇu, etc.' and 'Viṣṇu also says', used to report and then interpret the number of Aṣṭakā-related rites.

   In the *smṛtis* of Viṣṇu, etc.