A Short History of Indian Literature

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A Short History of Indian Literature
Horrwitz, Ernest Philip, 1866-
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See Pagan Ibbland, pp. 46-50.
Digitized by Google Short History of Indian Literature 88 of the code, but no less to its stauncli con- servatism. The ordinances of Manu embody the customary laws which had been handed down from Vedic antiquity, and at the same time reflect the social life of later days which too have long passed into history.^ The conditions of society are often measured by the position that woman holds in it. Hindu matrons seem to have enjoyed much respect and domestic influence
... at Manu's time.^ The seclusion of women in zenanas is no Hindu custom at all, but was introduced in India after the Mohammedan Conquest, about the time when the Planta- , genets rose to power in England. Slave trade was known among the ancient Hindus quite as much as among the classical nations of Europe. Manu states that money-lenders were entitled to charge fifteen per cent.
^ Manxx was not an individual lawgiver like Moses, but the name is symbolical and signifies mind (mams in Sanskrit, menB in Latin).


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