A major Tamil ethical treatise organized around virtue, wealth, and love, whose composition in a regional language rather than Sanskrit broadens this archive's linguistic and textual scope.
The Tirukkural is a major ethical treatise composed in Tamil, and this archive includes it deliberately as a corrective to a real bias in its own coverage so far: the great majority of texts this archive has treated were composed in Sanskrit, leaving the subcontinent's rich regional-language literary and philosophical traditions substantially underrepresented.
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A widely read collection of short verses summarizing core ethical and psychological teachings of early Buddhism in accessible, memorable form.
A cluster of ideas around duty, order, and right conduct that is understood differently across Indian traditions.
The classical scheme of four legitimate aims of human life — duty, prosperity, pleasure, and liberation — held in tension.
The principle of non-harm or non-violence — developed with particular rigor in some traditions and adapted into modern political thought.
An ancient Indian tradition known for a rigorous ethics of non-harm and a distinctive analysis of karma and the soul.
A major tradition originating in ancient India, spanning many schools and cultures, with a distinctive analysis of self, suffering, and conduct.