RBSE VU Dharma Shastra case studies
RBSE VU Dharma Shastra · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The RBSE Varishth Upadhyay Dharma Shastra paper is a senior secondary (Class 12) board examination in Sanskrit-based religious and legal scholarship, offered through the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education's Varishth Upadhyay stream. It suits students who have completed the Purva Upadhyay level or equivalent Sanskrit study and who intend to continue into traditional scholarship, teaching, priestly work, or university Sanskrit and Indology programmes. The RBSE VU Dharma Shastra case studies are 5 cases and about 4,463 words.
1A Recorded Custom and a Pandit's Objection: Widow Remarriage at Anandapur
Anandapur, a market town in the Deccan, has a recorded custom called nikat-vivaha: a childless widow may remarry, and the groom's family pays the town's merchant guild a fixed fee of 101 rupees, spent on the water tank. The custom stands in the council's palm-leaf register and, the elders say, has been observed for four generations and officiated by local Brahmins.
889 words, about 4 min2The Overdue Upanayana of Devadatta: Samskara, Delay and Penance
Devadatta is fifteen, the only son of a Brahmin family in a village near Ujjain. His father died when he was three, and because his mother Sushila was a widow with no income, neither the cudakarana (tonsure) nor the upanayana was ever performed.
862 words, about 4 min3The King's Brother and the Farmer's Forty Bighas: Rajadharma and Kin
Raja Surajadeva rules a drought-stricken hill state of some forty villages. His younger brother Vikramadeva, who supervises the state grain store, has enclosed forty bighas of a farmer's land as a private garden and built a wall across the irrigation channel.
897 words, about 4 min4Adulterated Sweets at Tamralipti: Compensation, Danda and Prayascitta
At Tamralipti, on the eastern coast, a confectioner named Nanda prepared sweets for a wedding in Bhadra. To stretch a costly consignment of ghee, he mixed it with cheap vegetable fat and a bitter herb that restored the colour and smell.
888 words, about 4 min5Three Exemptions in One School: Jain, Buddhist and Sikh Reasoning on a Governing Board
A grant-maintained secondary school in Kolkata has a governing board of nine, among them three religious trustees: a Jain layman, a Buddhist layman and an amritdhari Sikh. Three requests arrive in the same week.
927 words, about 5 min