INDEX | Āpastamba Dharmasūtra

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Index of Contents | 12 Parts

Part 1:

1. Sources of Law
2. Social Classes
THE STUDENT
3. Initiation
4. Teacher
5. Time of Initiation
6. Failure to be Initiated
7. Residency
A Student’s Code of Conduct
8. General Rules
9. Insignia
10. General Rules
11. Food
12. Fire Worship
13. Conduct towards the Teacher
14. General Rules
15. Conduct towards the Teacher
16. General Rules
17. Conclusion of Study

Part 2:

A Student
Who Has Returned Home
1. Conduct towards the Teacher
2. Duties of a Teacher
3. Vedic Recitation and its Suspension

Part 3:

1. Private Recitation of the Veda
2. Great Sacriﬁces
3. Salutation
4. Study and Conduct
towards the Teacher
5. Return to Studentship
6. Duty to Teach
7. Salutation
8. Puriﬁcation

Part 4:

Food
1. Unﬁt Food
2. Rules of Eating
3. Eating Utensils
4. Forbidden Food
5. People from Whom
Food May Be Accepted
6. Path of the Law
7. Trade as an Occupation

Part 5:

1. Acts Making a Man
an Outcaste or Sordid
2. Knowledge of the Self
3. Penances

Part 6:

1. The Bath at the End
of Studentship
2. Observances of a Bath-Graduate

Part 7:

THE HOUSEHOLDER
1. Eating
2. Wedding Anniversary
3. Rites
4. Rules of Sexual Intercourse
5. Rebirth as Reward and Punishment
6. Penances for Contact with Outcastes
THE FOOD
7. Preparation of Food
8. Food Offerings
9. Distribution of Food
and Reception of Guests
10. Rules of Eating

Part 8:

1. The Teacher and
the Annual Course of Study
2. Conduct towards the Teacher
3. Rules for a Teacher
4. Reception of Guests
5. Distribution of Food
6. Rules about Begging
Law with respect to Classes
7. Lawful Occupations
8. Rules of Precedence
9. Rebirth

Part 9:

Marriage
1. Marrying a Second Wife
2. Marriage of Daughters
3. Types of Marriage
4. Miscellaneous Rules and Penances
5. Sons
6. To Whom Belongs a Son
7. Law in Previous Times
8. Inheritance
9. Family and Regional Customs
10. Observances at the Death of a Relative
11. Ritual Food Offerings
12. Impurity of Children

Part 10:

1. Ancestral Offerings
2. Time
3. Types of Food
4. Quality of Invitees
5. Procedure
6. Prohibitions
7. Daily Ancestral Offering
8. Rite for Prosperity
9. Monthly Ancestral Offering
10. Rite for Prosperity
11. Miscellaneous Rules

Part 11:

ORDERS OF LIFE
1. Orders of Life
2. Student
3. Wandering Ascetic
4. Forest Hermit
5. Superiority among Orders

Part 12:

KING
1. Royal Fort
2. Duties
3. Gambling
4. Protection of Subjects
5. Appointment of Security Officers
6. Collection of Taxes
Sexual Misconduct
7. Rape
8. Levirate
9. Adultery
10. Crime and Punishment
11. Marital Property
12. Judicial Process
13. Witnesses
14. Conclusion of the Study of Law