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WINE IN ANCIENT INDIA.
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Wine in Ancient India.
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DHARMA SHASTRAS.
Ages and the Scriptures.
The Hindu Shastras are classed into :—
- Shruti, which includes the four Vedas.
- Smriti, the work on social and family duties.
- Purans.
- Tantras.
The great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are included in the Hindu Scriptures, and works Artha Shastra of Kautilya and Kama Sutra of Vatsayana, though not truly Dharma-shastras are works on social domestic and political duties of men.
Ayur-Veda or science of life, deals in health and medicine, which forms a part of Atharva-veda is also included here.
Buddhism originated from Hindu philosophy, and later Hinduism is much indebted to this cult, so is its precepts too are hurriedly glanced.
