dharman, dharma

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I wonder if there is other writing on dharma similar to that in the chapter in

Halfbass's _India and Europe_ wherein he gives a history of the concept, saying

among other things (if I understand him, and remember aright) that the vedic

rta was an entirely anthropocentric concept, not a 'natural law', and that it

is quite different from the later dharma, to which it is often said to be a

mere forerunner, which is the argument of other writings on dharma which I have

found.

 

I also wonder what other books are interested in the idea I find in Doniger's

_Origins of Evil_, of the sramana as representing a kind of virtue-as-anti-

dharma in antithesis to the ritual, more or less anethical vedic dharma, and

uneasily coopted into 'counterreformational' Brahmanism.