History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c18.37
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c18.37
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v2.c18.37
The foregoing discussion establishes that all dharmaśāstra writers attached the highest importance to moral qualities and enjoined them upon all with all the emphasis they could command; but as their main purpose was a practical one, viz., to guide people to right acts in everyday life, they dealt more elaborately with the acts, rites and ceremonies that each person had to do with reference to his station in society. They are therefore found principally concerning themselves with varṇāśrama dharma and not with *sādhāraṇa dharma* (i. e. duties common to all alike).