Tagged: Manusmriti

Hygiene in Ancient India

This is a old draft of a ‘lazy’ post that never got published. It has some fascinating detail on the practice of hygiene and sanitation in ancient India. The first extract is from a...

Re-examining Manusmriti

Thanks to Krishen-ji for alerting me to this article by Dr Arvind Sharma. The essay examines (in Krishen-ji’s words) How authoritative really was Manu, and was his a contested text? Was the Manusmriti prescriptive of...