08-27-2008, 08:18 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Aug 27 2008, 08:11 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Aug 27 2008, 08:11 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->And Dharma in Samskritam is NOT NOT NOT religion. I don't know why in Hindi today Dharma has been equated with religion.
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Husky I agree with everything you said in the above post. But this one, dharma = mata/sampradAya/religion does apparently go back in some ancient and classical saMskR^ita itself. I have seen the usage of the term 'dharma' in nIti-shAstra-s to mean religion (using that term losely here). Especially viShNugupta uses that word in that sense.
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Husky I agree with everything you said in the above post. But this one, dharma = mata/sampradAya/religion does apparently go back in some ancient and classical saMskR^ita itself. I have seen the usage of the term 'dharma' in nIti-shAstra-s to mean religion (using that term losely here). Especially viShNugupta uses that word in that sense.