Vaibhav Tyagi & Rishika Chaurasia
ABSTRACT
The idea of dharma can be divided into two concepts: one is a normative concept, and the other is how it governs how people go about their daily lives in their social and private lives. It establishes what people's responsibilities are to society, their families, to life, and to God. The Vedas were supposed to be the ultimate authority on Dharma and all other matters. Various sources were claimed to support this lone authority. A secondary expert in the law codes (smriti) was seen to exist alongside the Vedas (sruti), with some Dharmasastras gaining extraordinary significance. The "sadacara" or great or pious traditions, or traditions of the greats, was a third source. The heart of the Dharma was described by these various authors as a tradition that governs how individuals conduct their social and private realms. It is important to recognise the role of Dharma in the development of contemporary law that covers personal laws such as marriage, adoption, inheritance, and other matters of a private nature. Dharma is the primary teaching for humanity, and this conclusion may be drawn. There are enough parallels between Dharma and Law that we experience in almost every Hindu religious circumstance to make it necessary for us to have a basic understanding of law. The first is that both Dharma and Law have a propensity to encompass and contain many groups and classes, giving them a varied status. The terms "agreement" and "legal claim," "shower" and "dharmic bathing," and "charitable giving" and "dharmic blessings" are not interchangeable. In order to demonstrate how present legislation is built on dharmic values that have been upheld throughout history in the form of customary practises, the objective of this paper is to analyse the relationship between contemporary laws and dharma.
Keywords: Dharma, Hindu, Tradition, Custom and Law.
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