[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) › v7.c84.2 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c84.2 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c84.2 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c84.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c84.2) This volume is divided into ten sections. The first section deals with Vratas and Utsavas (religious vows and festivals); the second with Kāla (time), Muhūrta (auspicious times), and calendar; the third with Śāntis (propitiatory rites for averting the wrath of a deity, a calamity or unlucky event); the fourth and fifth with Purāṇas and Dharmaśāstra and the causes of the disappearance of Buddhism from India; the sixth with Tāntrik doctrines and Dharmaśāstra; the seventh with Mīmāṁsā and Dharmaśāstra; the eighth with Sāṅkhya, Yoga, Tarka and Dharmaśāstra; the ninth with cosmology, Karma and Punarjanma; the tenth with the fundamental conceptions and characteristics of Hindu (Bhāratīya) culture and civilization, and future trends. - [Previous: v7.c84.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c84.1) - [Next: v7.c84.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c84.3) - [Up: v7.c84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c84) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c84.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c84.2) · Pramāṇa