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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... The character of Teacher is brought forward as having especial claim to reverence. The religious bath and the sacred cord are made important. Though sacrifices are still eaten, the rules for general diet are more precise. Oblations to the spirits of ancestors seem to be a new custom. The military art has been developed, and the use of elephants, chariots, cavalry, as well as archers and swordsmen, is described. Cities, and the mode of besieging them, are alluded to. The prices of markets are to be regulated. Many of the regulations are good enough, but the punishments are not always in proportion to the true character of acts. There is an excessive stress on the sanctity of the highest caste, and severe penalties for whatever tends to lessen it. There is an attempt, in short, to arrest society, and fix it in a mould, chiefly of priesthood and partly of race; while such minuteness of regulation in common actions may be natural for a speculator to devise, but has never been found wholesome in practical life. Here and there, too, appear allusions to Viswamitra, and, perhaps, others who vindicated the kingly freedom for a time, though the fatal victory, in the struggle, was, to their own cost, with the Brahmans. "Yet, however different the polity sketched in the Mdnavadharma-sdstra may be from that of the earliest time, I would not affirm that it has no prefigurement in the Sutras, which have been mentioned as appended to the Vedic hymns. It has been noticed, that the same names are given as authorities for some of the Sutras, and of the Laws. The tendencies of the one find their fulfilment in the other. But this only affects the question, where the difference begins. "What now must have happened between the two social stages we...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154682014
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 198
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154682013
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 363 gr


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