If women were so respected, why then does the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad say the following:

If she does not willingly yield her body to him, he should buy her with presents. If she is still unyielding, he should strike her with a stick or with his hand and overcome her, repeating the following mantra:
“With power and glory I take away your glory.”
Thus she becomes discredited.

As shown here: http://www.gayathrimanthra.com/contents/documents/Vedic-related/brihadaranyaka_upanishad.pdf

Also, if the Ashwamedha Yagna was corrupted by the Indologists, why then does this picture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asvamedha_ramayana.JPG

which predates the British Raj, depict a queen killing the horse?

And why does this coin from Samadragupta I’s reign (also predating the British Raj) depict both the queen and the horse?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ashvacoin.jpg

And why do the Mahabharata and Ramayana contain mention of queens like Kausalya and Draupadi participating in the rite? For more information, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashvamedha

Is that also Indologist corruption? Could someone please post the correct version of the Ashwamedha Yagna? Thanks!

Feel free to delete it from your blog.

Thanks once again.

I should have done that in the first place. Your site seems to be copy-protected and I can’t life text from here. Will try some other time.

Thanks,

I know JK has already written to the GlobalPost folks