m. virtue, morality, religion, religious merit, good works ( dharmeṇadh/armeṇa-ind.or dharmātmāt-ind.according to right or rule, rightly, justly, according to the nature of anything; see below; dharmesthitamesthita-mfn.holding to the law, doing one's duty) etc.
m. Law or Justice personified (as indra- etc.;as yama-;as born from the right breast of yama- and father of śama-, kāma- and harṣa-;as viṣṇu-;as prajā-pati- and son-in-law of dakṣa- etc.;as one of the attendants of the Sun ;as a Bull ;as a Dove )
m. the ethical precepts of Buddhism (or the principal dharma-called sūsra-,as distinguished from the abhi-dharma-or,"further dharma-"and from the vinaya-or"discipline", these three constituting the canon of Southern Buddhism )
m. established order, usage, institution, custom, prescription; rule; duty; virtue, moral merit, good works; right; jus tice; law (concerning, g. or --°ree;); often per sonified, esp. as Yama, judge of the dead, and as a Pragâpati; nature, character, es sential quality, characteristic attribute, pro perty: in. dhármena, in accordance with law, custom, or duty, as is or was right; --°ree;, after the manner of, in accordance with; dharme sthita, observing the law, true to one's duty.
Are the regular words, the latter in the Rigveda, and both later, for ‘ law ’ or ‘ custom.’ But there is very little evidence in the early literature as to the administration of justice or the code of law followed. On the other hand, the Dharma Sūtras contain full particulars.Criminal Law.—The crimes recognized in Vedic literature vary greatly in importance, while there is no distinction adopted in principle between real crimes and what now are regarded as fanciful bodily defects or infringements of merely conventional practices. The crimes enumerated include the slaying of an embryo (
noun (masculine neuter) a bow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a particular ceremony (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a Soma-drinker (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
an Upanishad (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
associating with the virtuous (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
character (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
customary observance or prescribed conduct (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
devotion (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
duty (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
justice (often as a synonym of punishment) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Law or Justice personified (as Indra) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
law (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
mark (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
morality (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a king of Kaśmīra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a lexicographer (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Anu and father of Ghṛta (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Citraka
name of a son of Dīrghatapas (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Gāndhāra and father of Dhṛta (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Haihaya and father of Netra (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Pṛthuśravas and of Uśanas (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Suvrata (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the 15th Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
nature (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
ordinance (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
peculiar condition or essential quality (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
peculiarity (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
practice (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
property (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
religion (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
religious abstraction (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
religious merit (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
right (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
sacrifice (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
statute (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
steadfast decree (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
that which is established or firm (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the ethical precepts of Buddhism (or the principal dharma called sūsra) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the law of Northern Buddhism (in 9 canonical scriptures) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the law or doctrine of Buddhism (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the ninth mansion (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
usage (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
virtue (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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