Yajnavalkya or "remembered" writings, a genre of literature that is significant but not as authoritative as the shrutis, or ...

  Vijnaneshvara is a Hindu (12th c.) Author of the Mitakshara, a lengthy commentary on the Yajnavalkya Smrti, which is itself a work of dhar...

Vijnaneshvara's voluminous commentary on the Yajnavalkya Smrti, written early in the twelfth century. The British colonial administr...

  Marriage Prohibitions are a set of laws that prohibit people from marrying one other. Hindus, like other cultures, have well-defined nor...

In Hindu law, there are various different inheritance arrangements. Matrilineal succession, in which inheritance is handed down via the moth...