Respect of Women

[Arleitter]

Re: Respect of Women

@calypsodc

Arleitter,

U never did answer my previous queries,

The original version in Sanskrit known as Valmiki Ramayana dates to approximately the 5th to 4th century B.C.

The earliest known references to the Mahabharata and its core Bharata date back to the Ashtadhyayi (sutra 6.2.38) of Pāṇini (fl. 4th century BCE), and in the Ashvalayana Grhyasutra (3.4.4). This may suggest that the core 24,000 verses, known as the Bharata, as well as an early version of the extended Mahabharata, were composed by the 4th century BCE.

A range of historical opinion generally dates composition of the Manusmriti text any time between 200 BCE and 200 CE.

(Source:Wikipedia)

So how can Mahabharata and Ramayana which were composed earlier contain references to a work which was written 2 -4 centuries later?

Dr Surendra Kumar has written a detailed translation of Manu Smriti in Hindi (published by Aarsh Sahitya Prachar Trust, Delhi) that analyzes each shloka on various parameters to weed out those verses that are obviously interpolated.
He has deduced that of the 2685 shlokas of Manu Smriti, at least 1471 shlokas are adulterated. He has classified the adulterations as :

• out of subject
• out of context
• contradictory
• repetition
• difference in usage and style
• blatant contradiction with Vedas

Dr Surendra Kumar is not the only person to point out adulterations in Manu Smriti. Even many a western indologists like Macdonnell, Keith, Buhler etc have expressed the same.

So Manusmriti may have tried to draw inspiration from Ramayana and Mahabharat and not the otherway around as U r suggesting.

Do you have a link or reference that says that Manusmriti predates the epics ? Please provide it.

I have already given the links before.You can just scroll up and see . .It was as an answer to both you and The Player,to avoid repitition. Thanks.