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--- On Sat, 4/2/12, shivashankara rao <shivashankararao@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: shivashankara rao
Subject: SMRITIS IN KEEPING WITH TIMES.
To: "vittal bv" , "mangala k poornamanagala" , madraslawyer@yahoo.co.in, "shankar narayana rao" <raosn44@rediffmail.com>
Date: Saturday, 4 February, 2012, 10:42 PM

    SMRITIS IN KEEPING WITH TIMES.

Smriti means "what is remembered".  

With smrutis, a systematic study and teaching of Vedas started. 

Many sages, from time to time, have written down the concepts given in Vedas. 

So it can be said that Smrutis are a written memoir of the knowledge of the sages. 

Immediately after the Vedic period, a need for the regulation of the society arose. 

Thus, the study of vedas and the incorporation of local culture and customs became important. 

It is believed that many smrutis were composed in this period and some were reduced into writing, however, not all are known. 

The smrutis can be divided into two - Early smritis (Dharmasutras) and Later smritis (Dharmashastras).

Manu Smriti was compiled several thousand years back during which interval, social, economic and political conditions have changed in Hindu society.  

If Indian Constitution has required more than one Amendment per year, how many Amendments would be necessary in Hindu Constitution compiled several thousand years back? 

There were no printing presses and standard reference editions several thousand years back.  

Naturally, the current edition of Manu Smriti has suffered from many interpolations for which  Maha Rishi Manu cannot be held responsible and for which criticism of Maha Rishi Manu will not be justified. 

Further, as has been seen the practice of Hindu religion, there is enormous, almost complete freedom for an individual to believe or to disbelieve any dogma, to accept or to discard any instruction written in any book, and to use one's own intelligence and conscience before adopting any course of action.  

This is the beauty of Hindu religion.

 Maha Rishi Manu himself says that if there is anything in his Smriti which is not acceptable to the conscience of any person, that person should reject it and act according to his/her own conscience.  

Then, where is any reasonable ground for criticising Maha Rishi Manu?  Rather, he deserves our respect for his giving us instructions to reject what is against our conscience even in his Manu Smriti.

SEVERAL SMRITIS

I wish to request those who talk of the smritis  to provide a comparison of the arguments and conclusions arrived at by the following smritis.
It is interesting to see how our ancestors have changed their concepts and conclusions in keeping with the changing times.

Hats off for their common sense and our lack of it.

1. Atri smriti
2.Angirasa smriti
3. Apastamba smriti
4. Ashvalaayana smriti  and dharmashastra
5. kapila smriti
6. Rishyashringa smriti
7. GObhila smriti
8. Goutama smriti
9. Chaturvimshati matha smriti
10. Daksha smriti
11. DEvala smriti
12. Narada smriti
13. ParAshara smriti
14. Pithaamaha smriti
15. Pulastya smriti
16. PyTeenasi smriti
17. PrachEtasa smriti
18. PrajApati smriti
19, Bruhat Parashara smriti
20. Bruhadyaama smriti
21. Bruhaspati smriti
22. BOdaayana smriti
23. Bhaaradvaja smriti.
24. Manu smriti
25. Mareecha smriti
26. Yama smriti
27. Yaajnavalkya smriti.
28. Laghu parashara smriti.
29. laghu Vasishta smriti.
30. laghu vishnu smriti.
31. laghu vyaasa smriti
32. laghu saankya smriti.
33. laghu shaataatapa smriti
34. laghu shounaka smriti
35. laghu hareeta smriti
36. laghvatri smriti
37. likhita smriti
38. lohita smriti
39. lohita smriti
40. loukaakshi smriti
41. vasishta smriti
42. vishvaamitra smiti
43. vishveshvara smriti
44. vishnu smriti
45. vruddha haareeta smriti
46. vruddha haareeta
47. vruddha shataatapa
48. vruddhaatri
49. vruddha goutama
50. vyaasa smriti
51.saankhya likhita smriti
52. shaandilya smriti
53. samvarta smriti
54. varaaha smriti.
55. smriti muktaaphalam
56. smriti chandrika

etc., etc.,      Oh, I am tired of writing the names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shivashankararao

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