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The Prop Under the Sky: What Dharma Meant Before It Meant Duty
In the Rigveda, dharma is not a moral code. It is a load-bearing noun, the physical thing that keeps heaven and earth from collapsing into each other. It appears sixty-three times, mostly in the youngest hymns, and one translator rendered it seven different ways in a single book.