Editing Golden Rule (section)

===Ancient India===
====Sanskrit tradition====
In ''[[Mahabharata|Mahābhārata]]'', the ancient epic of India, there is a discourse in which sage Brihaspati tells the king Yudhishthira the following about [[dharma]], a philosophical understanding of values and actions that lend good order to life:
{{Blockquote|One should never do something to others that one would regard as an injury to one's own self. In brief, this is dharma. Anything else is succumbing to desire.| ''Mahābhārata'' 13.113.8 (Critical edition){{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}}}

The Mahābhārata is usually dated to the period between 400 BCE and 400 CE.<ref>Cush, D., Robinson, C., York, M. (eds.) (2008) "Mahābhārata" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=kzPgCgAAQBAJ ''Encyclopedia of Hinduism''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117102108/https://books.google.com/books?id=kzPgCgAAQBAJ |date=17 January 2023 }}. Abingdon: Routledge, p 469</ref><ref>van Buitenen, J.A.B. (1973) [https://books.google.com/books?id=i8oe5fY5_3UC&dq=mahabharata+book+1&pg=PR25 ''The Mahābhārata, Book 1: The Book of the Beginning''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730165523/https://books.google.com/books?id=i8oe5fY5_3UC&dq=mahabharata+book+1&pg=PR25 |date=30 July 2023 }}. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, p xxv</ref>

====Tamil tradition====
In Chapter 32 in the [[Aram (Kural book)|Book of Virtue]] of the [[Tirukkuṛaḷ]] ({{circa|1st century BCE to 5th century CE}}), [[Valluvar]] says:

{{blockquote|Do not do to others what you know has hurt yourself.| ''Kural'' 316<ref name="Sundaram_Kural">{{cite book | last = Sundaram | first = P. S. | title = Tiruvalluvar Kural| publisher = Penguin | date = 1990 | location = Gurgaon | pages = 50 | isbn = 978-0-14-400009-8}}</ref>}}
{{blockquote|Why does one hurt others knowing what it is to be hurt?| ''Kural'' 318<ref name="Sundaram_Kural"/>}}

Furthermore, in verse 312, Valluvar says that it is the determination or code of the spotless (virtuous) not to do evil, even in return, to those who have cherished enmity and done them evil. According to him, the proper punishment to those who have done evil is to put them to shame by showing them kindness, in return and to forget both the evil and the good done on both sides (verse 314).<ref name="Aiyar_Kural">{{cite book | last = Aiyar | first = V. V. S. | title = The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar| publisher = Pavai | edition = 1 | date = 2007 | location = Chennai | pages = 141–142 | isbn = 978-81-7735-262-7}}</ref>