What is the difference between shruti and smriti It emphasizes the means of acquiring knowledge and the nature of reality through reasoning and debate What scriptures are included in shruti &
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Which is remembered, attributed to an author, derivative work
Is bhagvad gita considered shruti or smriti
It is also divine origin (authored by god), so can be considered shruti it is part of mahabharata which is a smriti literature, so can be considered smriti How many currently available smritis are there Are there any smritis whose names are known but not available What are the names of smritis available along with the corresponding author names and.
The yajnavalkha smriti lists 20 smritis which i have listed below (although the number is sometimes reduced to 19 by considering the likhita and sankha smritis as one since the authors were brothers). The classification of scripture into sruti (heard, revealed Vedas, as the vedas are revealed from god directly) and smriti (written by men) is much earlier than shankaracharya Shankaracharya is not the one that made the classification
One of the earliest references is manu smriti
But my sruti (revelation) is meant the veda, and by smriti (tradition) the institutes. Parasara smriti 4.30 “a widow, who immolates herself on the same funeral pile with her deceased husband, resides in heaven for ten millions of years, which is the number of hairs on the human body. Some people nowadays say only the shruti (vedas) is the sole authority in regard to dharma, and what is not shruti, like the smriti, dharma shastras, puranas, etc The smriti texts and the puranas that we have today reflect the attitude of people who lived many centuries ago
Most of these texts have been revised many times These texts teach us to adapt these teachings to modern times and in fact discard any teaching that seems obsolete today. Vishnu smriti without commentary is available here The institutes of vishnu, translated by julius jolly
Narada smriti without commentary is available here
Manu smriti states that only vedic darshana is true and all other darshanas are false A quora entry lists the six vedic darshanas as nyaya Focuses on logic and epistemology
