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From: baparao@uscvax.UUCP (Bapa Rao)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Some Ideas from India: Laws of Manu: Duties of Sudras
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 20:05:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 20:05:17 1986
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In article <589@harvard.UUCP> paturi@harvard.UUCP (Ramamohan Paturi) writes:
>From paturi@harvard.HARVARD.EDU.ARPA (Ramamohan Paturi):
>
>                       Some Ideas from India
>                        ---- ----- ---- -----
>
>The following is taken from "A source book in Indian Philosophy"
>(S. Radhakrishnan and C. A. Moore).
>
>Manu's code (???? BC)  gives detailed instructions regarding the then social
>rules and practices in India. It believes in the fourfold order
>of society as a means of social cooperation for the common good. Each one has
>to perform the function for which his nature best suits him. The following are
>the duties of Sudras who form the fourth group according to the caste system
>(brahmin, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra in that order).
>
>
>                       DUTIES OF SUDRAS
>
>   ... to serve brahmins (who are) learned in Vedas, house-holders, and
>   famous (for virtue) is the highest duty of a sudra, which leads to
>   beatitude.
> etc., etc.,

Is it a safe bet that Manu was NOT a Sudra? Might he even have been a
Brahmin? Just wondering.


                                                --Bapa Rao.