Manusmriti Quotes
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“Mahabharata”
“Only in the case of a girl is the whole body pure.”
“A child materially born is not an Aryan; the child born in spirituality is an Aryan.”
“Wikipedia: Manusmriti”
“Circumcision, was prescribed for male children and the removal of the small labia from the females.”
“[Brahmāvarta or] ―the district between the Sarasvatī and Dṛṣadvatī is the home of the Veda.”
“He is of the 'aryan' race, who is born through prayer, and he is a nonarian, who is born through sensuality.”
“Where women are honored there the gods are pleased; but where they are not honored no sacred rite yields rewards.”
““The cosmogony of the Manava Dharmashastra is the broadest and most comprehensive we have thus far encountered.””
“Evil actions performed in this world do not bear fruit immediately like the cow, which gives milk after being fed, but gradually gnaw the roots of him who commits them.”
“Manu Smriti was the foundation upon which the Egyptian, the Persian, the Grecian and the Roman codes of law were built and that the influence of Manu is still felt in Europe.”
“Hindu Sashtras also contain a Sanitary Code no less correct in principle, and that the great law-giver, Manu, was one of the greatest sanitary reformers the world has ever seen.”
“[Calling it a law book] skews it towards what the British hoped to make of it: a tool with which to rule the Hindoos. A broader title like 'teaching' would better suggest what the text is.”
“They are forbidden to write from left to right or to use their right hand in writing: the use of the right hand and writing from left to right are reserved to people of virtue, to people of race.”
“[The Aryan] religion was, in its poetic fancies, as far exalted above [the native's] crude systems of worship as the sublime teachings of Christianity soar above the doctrines of the code of Menu.”
“To draw up such a law–book as Manu’s means to lay before a people the possibility of future mastery, of attainable perfection—it permits them to aspire to the highest reaches of the art of life.”
“When a man has studied the Veda in accordance with the rules, and begotten sons in accordance with his duty, and sacrificed with sacrifices according to his ability, he may set his mind-and-heart on freedom. (MS 6.36)”
“Says our great law-giver, Manu, giving the definition of an Aryan, "He is the Aryan, who is born through prayer". Every child not born through prayer is illegitimate, according to the great law-giver. The child must be prayed for.”