THE SCRIPTURE OF MANUSMRITI HOLDS WOMEN IN HIGHEST ESTEEM
Manusmriti is the greatest civil code ever authored on Planet Earth for human society centuries ago. During colonial occupation, Euro-authors were mobilised by the intruding British regime to insert Sloka -s to distort the philosophy in their bid to divide and rule Hindu society. Intensity and depth of the wisdom may be gauged from the fact that quite enigmatically, the philosophy is very much in action in various forms and manifests in all societies, in all countries even today being intrinsic to human psyche. Several Smriti -s came into being during that phase but none of them could survive in presence of the aura of Manusmriti . Antiquity of the Smriti is established by its being mentioned in scriptures like Satpatha , Taittiriya Upanisad etc. Universe is essentially binomial in structre and temperament. If peaks have valleys, deserts have oceans, days have nights, summers have winters, blizzards have tranquil serenity, Prabhava has Pralaya , wisdom has action then Purus...