Hinduism: The Caste System

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December 2, 2014

 

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(Walker 27). He, according to Sivananda, who lived 30 million years ago during the age of mental purity (age of truth) is said to have laid down this caste system in his code of laws called manu-smriti, the first of the three such codes, for the purpose of allotting duties to the persons in the society in correspondence with their abilities and aspirations...
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Manu dictated 100000 verses but now it stands abridged into 2685 verses divided into 12 books. (Walker 28) The code was inviolable. A famous Vedic verse declares, "All that Manu said is medicine". The chief design of code seems to have been to give divine sanction to the institution of caste, to make caste supreme in India?...
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