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A Brief Synopsis of the History of Hindu Law in the Vedic Age and in Post-Vedic Times Down to the Institutions of Manu

1900

In regard to the disciplines and practices of religious life on the one hand it emphasised the subjugation of the senses the control of the mind the denial of all instincts the suppression of all desires and the cultivation of right discrimintion through the development of the sense of the real and the eternal by abstraction from and negation of everything outside as mere appearance an [...] As the result of this systefn the purity of the Aryan blood was in the main preserved from mixture with that of the Non-Aryans_ and of the three Aryan castes the quiet qualities of the Brahmanas the military and political aptitudes of the Kshatriyas the artistic and commercial instincts of the Vasyas were devloped to a most remarkable degree. [...] Further the Indian mind distrustful of the free and unchecked play of individual passions in the realm of society has hedged in the individual within the bartior of communalism which identfied the interests of the individual with those of the caste or the social group and never allowed the unrestricted freedom of individual action but subordinated the individual to the society. [...] The corporate life of the family of the caste and of the nation which demands that the individual shall always subordinate his particularistic interests to the interests of the larger whole of which he forms a part even by the very disciplines which it imposes upon the individual in the interests of the higher life though some-times in apparent conflict with the free play of the individual pa [...] By the performance of these sacrifices and ceremonies the brotherhood of the familys is commemorated and the sacredness of the family relation attested at the very moment when the continuous existence of the family is endangered by the death of its head and the consequent chance in its person.
law
Pages
404
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142630
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The History of Hindu Law in the Vedic Age and in Post-Vedic times down to the Institutes of Manu
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