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Irrelevance of Dharmashastra as Hindu Jurisprudence

 Dharmashastra are coded law and they are not guiding principles.

Dharmashastra are recalled as Smriti but they are not remembrance of Vedic hymns rather of system. 

Dharmshastra tried to envision society as collection of different classes and established them into chain of rules. 

Since our society has moved forward and those class system has no relevance in this society, those coded law are not relevant except for learning law from historical perspective.

However Dharmashastra were never a guiding principle for law. Smriti's sages have said them to derive from Vedas. Anything inconsistent with Vedas is void. However, it is hard to correlate Vedas and Dharmashastra. And any discussion to establish Hindu Jurisprudence by explaining them by using Dharmashastra is waste of effort. Dharmashastra has lost its relevance as law in force and also was never relevant for jurisprudence perspective. 

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