[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c18.19 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c18.19 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c18.19 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c18.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c18.19) ¹⁴ अथाष्टावात्मगुणाः । दया सर्वभूतेषु क्षान्तिरनसूया शौचमनायासो मङ्गलमकार्पण्यमस्पृहेति । गौ. ध. सू. VIII. 23-24. Haradatta quotes eight verses which explain these eight qualities. Atri (verses 34-41) also defines these eight similarly but in different words. Aparārka (pp. 164-165), Smṛticandrikā (I. p. 13), Hemādri (Vrata p. 8) and Parāśaramādhavīya I. part 1 p. 84 quote from Bṛhaspati eight verses defining these eight qualities, which closely resemble Atri's. Vide Matsya 52.8-10 for these eight qualities and Vāyu 59.40-49, Mārkaṇḍeya 61.66 for saying that \*dayā\* (love for beings) is at the top of the eight ātmaguṇas and 28.31-32 for a slightly different enumeration of the eight. Viṣṇupurāṇa (III. 8.35-37) says that these eight mentioned by Gautama (तितिक्षा being substituted for क्षान्ति) and three more namely नाभिमानिता, सत्य, and प्रियवादिता are common to all varṇas. Vide वसिष्ठ VI. 3 आचारहीनं न पुनन्ति वेदाः. - [Previous: v2.c18.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c18.18) - [Next: v2.c18.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c18.20) - [Up: v2.c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c18) ## Cites (8) - [Matsyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.52.8) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.1.59.40) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.3.8.35) — Sanskrit - [Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.61.66) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha.6.3) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.8.23) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Bṛhaspatismṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.brhaspati) — Bṛhaspati, Sanskrit - [Samūrtārcanādhikaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.vaikhanasa.samurtarcanadhikarana.34) — Atri, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c18.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c18.19) · Pramāṇa