CLASSICAL LAW AND HINDUISM IN INDIA

本研究的目的是分析印度的经典法律文本（dharmasastra），目的是澄清古印度文明中社会秩序观念和文化规范的历史形成。在进行我们的联合研究时，我们的成员包括印度的各个领域，我们特别关注Yajnavalkya-Smrti（约4-5世纪）的文本。它对印度教的文化演变产生了很大的影响。然而，在我们研究的第一阶段，我们有一个共同的认识，即在古典法律文献领域，没有足够的文献学考据学研究来为古典印度法律文本的历史形成提供坚实的基础。因此，我们共同研究的重点转向了更基本的文献学方面，即通过对基本法律文本的分析，为进一步研究奠定坚实的基础。我们的研究报告“Yajnavalkya-Smrti更重要文本的材料”是我们语言学研究的部分结果，它编纂了过去150年来编辑的Yajnavalkya-Smrti所有文本的阅读材料，还包括在相关重要文本中发现的所有平行阅读材料。我们相信，该报告必将成为进一步研究古典法律文本不可缺少的资料来源。此外，作为我们共同研究的副产品，我们已编制了重要的经典梵文法律文本的电子梵文文本文件，供电脑使用。该文件已通过网络媒体向国际上的印度学研究人员开放，为印度学研究做出了巨大贡献，受到人们的高度赞扬。作为这项研究的另一项成果，我们正在准备出版一份联合论文“关于Yajnavalkya-Smrti的研究”（约300页，欧洲语言），将在几年内出版。截至目前，我正在准备另一项关于古代王权的权力和权威主题的联合研究，扩大本研究的一个主题。少

The purpose of this study has been to analyze the classical law texts (dharmasastra) of India with an aim of clarifying the historical formation of the ideas of social order and cultural norms in ancient Indian civilization. While conducting our joint study whose members consisted of various fields of Indology, we focused special attention on the text of Yajnavalkya-Smrti (ca.4-5th century. A.D.) which had exerted great influence upon the cultural evohition of Hinduism. During our first stage of the study, however, we came to share the common understanding that there had not been enough philological textual studies in the field of clasiical law literature which would offer the sound basis for the historical formation of the law texts of classical India. Therefore, the main focus of our joint study shifted to the more fundamental philological aspects, i.e., to make through analyzes of the basic law texts and prepare sound basis for further study.The report of our study "Materials for th … More e Critical Text of the Yajnavalkya-Smrti" is the part result of our philological study and it codifies the readings of all texts of the Yajnavalkya-Smrti so far edited during last 150 years, and also includes all the parallel readings found in the important texts concemed. We believe that the report will certainly be indispensable source for the further studies of the classical law texts. Further, as a bye-product of our joint study, we have compiled electric Sanskrit text files of the important clasiical Sanskrit law texts for computer use. The file which has been called "Electric Text of Dharma File" has been open to the international researchers of Indology through internet media and has been paid much tribute for giving a big contribution to the study of Indology.As an another result of this study, we have been preparting a publicationof joint papers "Studies on the Yajnavalkya-Smrti" (ca. 300 pages, in European languages) which will be published withina couple of years. As of now, I have been preparting an another joint study on the subject of power and authority around ancient kingship, enlarging one of the subjects taken up in this study. Less