Buddhism Vs. Manusmṛti

It would be precise and just to state that every Indian on the Indian soil has, at his back, a culture and concept of social life that have evolved through a processing of more than almost four thousand years. Society and its concept are in his blood. In this, the Hindu social life is in

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बेटाई-द्वय मनुस्मृति को, जिसे काणे ईसा पूर्व २०० से ईसा बाद २०० के बीच रखते हैं, बौद्ध धर्म के सामने रखते हैं। उनके अनुसार मनु ने वर्णाश्रमधर्म का संकलन उस संक्रमण-काल में किया जब वैदिक उदारता कठोरता में बदल रही थी और शास्त्र का स्थान लोकाचार ले रहा था। The Betais set the Manusmṛti, which Kane places between 200 BC and AD 200, against Buddhism. They read Manu as codifying varṇāśramadharma at a moment when Vedic liberalism was hardening into puritanism and custom was displacing śāstra, and weigh the Buddhist challenge to that social order.

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