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According to Pandurang Vaman Kane, author of History of Dharmaśāstra, the word dharma appears at least fifty-six times in the hymns of the Rigveda, as an adjective or noun. According to Paul Horsch, the word dharma has its origin in Vedic Hinduism.
As a key concept in Hindu thought, dharma has a deep cultural resonance. The word ‘dharma’ comes from the root dhṛ, which means ‘to uphold’. Hence, a dharma is anything that upholds an individual, a society, a polity, even the cosmos.
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Dec 21, 2015 · The word dharma comes from the Sanskrit root word dhri, which means “to hold,” "to maintain," or "to preserve." In the early Vedas and other ancient Hindu texts, dharma referred to the cosmic law that created the ordered universe from chaos.
dharma, key concept with multiple meanings in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. In Hinduism, dharma is the religious and moral law governing individual conduct and is one of the four ends of life.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 18, 2018 · According to Indian philosopher Radhakrishnan, in The Hindu View of Life, the word dharma comes from the root dhr, to hold. Dharma means “that which holds a thing and maintains it in being.” Every form of life, every person and every group, has its dharma. In practical terms, dharma refers to a mode of activity that maintains life on the ...
From its root meaning as “that which is established” comes such translations as law, duty, justice, religion, nature, and essential quality. Its oldest form, dharman , is found in the pre-Buddhist Ṛgveda , which dates to at least three thousand years ago.
It is the Buddhist literature of the Gandhāra region that was introduced to China during the first century b.c.e. through at least the fourth century c.e. The Chinese phonetic transliteration attests to the word dhama, but in canonical literature the term is almost always translated as fa (Japanese hō; Korean p ŏ p ).
