Prachi Prajna (Jun 2023)

आधवुनर् समाज एिं राजनीवत में याज्ञिल्क्यीय िवृततत्त्व और उनर्ी अपवरहायतक ा (Importance of Yājñavalkyasmṛti in the Modern Society and Politics)

  • Lakshmana Majhi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. IX, no. 16
pp. 41 – 49

Abstract

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The Yajñavalkyasmṛti is a text (Smṛti) of the Hindu Dharmaśāstra tradition. Its method of description of the subject is very well-established. The Mitākṣara commentary on it has been considered as evidence in Indian courts on Hindu theology. It was in the Yajñavalkyasmṛti that women's right to property was first exercised. The internal evidence of memory is the proof in this. This Smṛti was related to the tradition of the Śukla Yajurveda. Just as the Manava Dharmaśāstra was composed from the materials of the ancient Dharma Sūtra era, so the Yajñavalkyasmṛti also used the ancient materials and gave place to new materials. There are some memory elements in the Yajñavalkyasmṛti which are untouched and unused in modern society and politics but their indispensability is certainly there today.

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