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From: arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross)
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Subject: Re: Re: Some Ideas from India: Laws of Manu: Duties of Sudras
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> I found a posting from some one on net.religion.jewish saying that
> it was really an inappropriate place for lengthy articles on Hinduism or 
> India and I tend to agree.
> 
> I suggest that future postings on this and related topics be not
> directed to net.religion.jewish. In fact, it may be better to start
> a newsgroup net.religion.hinduism for postings directly pertaining to
> hinduism and not flood the other newsgroups with these articles.
> 
> 				-- Vasant
Here,here,...........well said.

I couldn't quite understand the relevance of the laws of Manu to 
net.religion.jewish until one day it dawned on me that perhaps
the great Jewish philosopher Maimonidies was called Manu in hindi.
This naturally led to further speculation, like, "how would people
in India have heard of Maimonidies -- did he have a summer home
in New Delhi ?" and "Are the laws of Manu really just the
Mishneh Torah under another name?". 

So I'm glad you cleared this whole thing up before all the
speculation got out of hand.

ari gross