Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- ನಿಯಮಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ
- Transliteration
- niyamaśāstra
- Rejected alternatives
- ಧರ್ಮ
Law
Torah/Mosaic law. NEVER ಧರ್ಮ, which carries both generic Hindu caste-duty connotations and, in Karnataka specifically, the memory of the Lingayat reform movement’s explicit rejection of Brahmanical dharma — a politically and religiously loaded word best avoided entirely for a legal-covenantal concept it does not match.
Referenced passages