c. 600 BCE–c. 200 CE
Dharmashastra and dharmasutra traditions
Law & constitutions · Text, law, and tradition
Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras articulate duties, ritual, family, inheritance, proof, and sanctions from roughly 600 BCE to 200 CE. They are normative genres of schools and commentators, not uniform state legislation or a direct description of all South Asian social practice.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: duration of a process.
Sources
- ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2015-05-08
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2015-09-25
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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