ABSTRACT
As a summary of the epistemological sources of Hindu law according to Dharmaśāstra texts, this chapter provides an overview of how Hindu legal thought in Sanskrit approached the question of legal authority from a philosophical perspective. The importance of Mīmāṃsā hermeneutics to the interpretation of legal sources is also discussed in relation to the special Hindu emphasis on ācāra, or the standards of good people, as an institutional view of law that remains relevant today.
