Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-04T17:45:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 matheuslandaudecarvalho.pdf: 1505552 bytes, checksum: e6eba60dd8ebb84885929c4e6229a2bc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-04-24T03:46:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 matheuslandaudecarvalho.pdf: 1505552 bytes, checksum: e6eba60dd8ebb84885929c4e6229a2bc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-24T03:46:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 matheuslandaudecarvalho.pdf: 1505552 bytes, checksum: e6eba60dd8ebb84885929c4e6229a2bc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-28 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / É objetivo desta Dissertação investigar os princípios que regem o sistema varṇa-āśrama da tradição hindu, tal como presente na obra Leis de Manu (Mānava-Dharmaśāstra). O sistema varṇa-āśrama combina de forma orgânica os ideais de estratificação sócio-ocupacional (varṇa) e de etapa de vida (āśrama). A qualificação e a descrição desses ideais envolvem argumentos de caráter mítico-religioso e de caráter racional-sociológico. Em outras palavras, pretende-se esmiuçar, a partir da referida obra, explicações racionais que estabeleçam exigências para a funcionalidade da sociedade segundo fins práticos necessários à manutenção da mesma, e, por outro lado, explicações meta-racionais, imbuídas de uma fundamentação religiosa, cujas ações seriam orientadas para fins transcendentais segundo a prescrição de injunções rituais e/ou a busca por bens espirituais, valendo-se de ambos os tipos de explicação enquanto categorias modernas de entendimento e compreensão do sistema varṇa-āśrama, numa abordagem externa ao contexto de surgimento das Leis de Manu (Mānava- Dharmaśāstra). Além disso, a Dissertação reflete também o esforço inédito de compreensão direta do texto original em sânscrito a partir do referencial linguístico-cultural da língua portuguesa. / The aim of this Dissertation is the investigation of the principles which govern the varṇaāśrama system of Hindu tradition as it is present in the Laws of Manu (Mānava- Dharmaśāstra). The varṇa-āśrama system arranges organically the ideals of sociooccupational stratification (varṇa) and stages of life (āśrama). The qualification and description of these ideals involve mythical-religious and rational-sociological arguments. In other words, it is intended here some enquiry into the aforesaid source looking for rational explanations which establish some exigencies for the society’s functionality according to practical purposes necessary to its maintenance, and, on the other hand, for meta-rational explanations, religiously grounded and whose actions would be orientated towards transcendental purposes according to prescribed ritual injunctions and/or the search for spiritual goods, drawing upon both types of explanation as modern categories of understanding and comprehension towards varṇa-āśrama system, in an outside approach to the context of the Laws of Manu’s (Mānava-Dharmaśāstra) emergence. Furthermore, the Dissertation also reflects a brand new effort of direct comprehension of the original Sanskrit text from the point of the cultural-linguistic reference of Portuguese language.

In this Master’s thesis, I attempt to illuminate the historical relationship between Classical Indian medical practice and Buddhist monastic law codes, vinaya, in India around the turn of the Common Era. Popular scholarly conceptions of this relationship contend that the adoption of the Indian medical tradition into the Buddhist monastic institution is directly traceable to the Pāli canon. The Mūlasarvastivāda-vinaya (MSV) does not appear to take issue with physicians or medical knowledge, yet the condemnation of physicians in ancient Indian literature strongly suggests that the relationship between monks and medicine is more complex than the Pāli canon illustrates. Similar to other vinaya traditions, the MSV includes detailed information about permitted medicaments, as well as allowances for monastics to provide medical care to other monastics and even, in particular cases, the laity. I argue that the incentives for monastics to maintain a positive relationship with the medical world were driven by the economic benefits of monastic medical knowledge, as well as associations with wealthy physicians. Using a variety of extant Sanskrit materials, as well as epigraphic evidence, I aim to present a nuanced picture of the history of the relationship between Indian Buddhist monasticism and medicine around the turn of the Common Era. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)