Hemantkumar Gajanan Padhya
This book is a short biography of Maharshi Gautam belonged to Angiras Gotra. Maharshi Gautam authored many Sutras like Gautam Dharmasutra, Gautam Medhsutra etc. He was the most ancient and foremost conceiver of Dharmasutra so he is considered to the father of social and religious law makers. He is known as the author of Nyaaya Philosophy and the principles expounded by him is known as Gautamsutra or Dharmasutra.. Dharmasūtra is the treaties of, discipline and duty in a form of law and it is devoted to the student, the order of a person's life, the householder, occupations of the four Varnas, the king’s duty, impurity, ancestral offerings, women and marriage, property, inheritance, daily rites and rituals, Sin and its expiations or penances. Maharshi Gautam, the great and the supreme jurist, has described them in his Smriti as- Right conduct. (achar dharm) Celibacy (Brahmacharya Dharm), Duties of a householder (Grihasthya Dharm),Duties during distress time. (Apad Dharm) , Description of various consecrations (Sanskar Varnan) , Duties ( Kartavya Vidhan), Occupations of different castes (Jaati Vritti), Duties of the king (Raj Dharm), Various types of impurities (Ashouch pratipadan), Certain time when the scripture cannot be studied (Anadhyaya) ,Atonement of sins and its methods (Chandrayan Vrata) , Distribution of wealth among the sons (Sampatti Vibhag).
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