Results for "Manusmṛti"

The Manusmṛti calls women worthy of worship in one verse and unfit for independence in another. Draupadī and Sītā, in the ep …

The Ṛgveda's female seers composed hymns, debated philosophers at King Janaka's court, and declared themselves the Absolute — even as the same era's texts reveal a narrower, male-p…

None of this made the wider society symmetrical. The spiritual domain was strikingly open; the material and lineal one was not. Prayers for the birth of heroic sons recur through t…

… owhere is the resulting contradiction sharper than in the **Manusmṛti**, the Laws of Manu: a text that can sound, within the space of a few verses, both reverent and severely restr …

Facing centuries of hardened patriarchy, Sikhism abolished satī and the veil as doctrine, not preference — and the Ārya Samāj went "back to the Vedas" to make the same case for wom…

… nsidered corrupted by interpolation, the same reasoning the Manusmṛti piece in this series describes being applied to that text's harsher verses. In his *Satyārtha Prakāśa* ("The …