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> you have gone with "sound bites" highlighting the negatives without any context thus distorting the whole discourse. Please provide some context around the f
by bluetreeroot 6y ago
> you have gone with "sound bites" highlighting the negatives without any context thus distorting the whole discourse.
Please provide some context around the following texts from Dharmasutra.
1) Criminal and Civil Law: "If he (Sudra) has sex with an Arya woman, his penis should be cut off and all his property should be confiscated." (Verse 12.1)
2) Contact with Impure Persons: "When a man touches an outcaste, a Candala, a woman who has just given birth or is menstruating, a corpse, or someone who has touched any of these, he becomes purified by bathing with his clothes on." (Verse 15.5)
Note: Candala is a low caste Hindu.
3) Pollution and Remedies: "An ancestral offering is ruined if it is seen by a dog, a Candala, or an outcaste." (Verse 15.24)
4) Unfit Food: "The following are unfit to be eaten: food into which hair or an insect has fallen; what has been touched by a menstruating woman, ..." (Verse 17.9)
Source: The Dharmasutras: The Law Codes of Ancient India, Oxford University Press, 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchability
- jbgud 6y agoSelective reading of texts that are thousands of years old - to bash modern Hindus that do not believe in any of these.
- rudiv 6y agoJai hind ji! May I get a handout from the IT cell?
- jbgud 6y agoRight, resort to personal attacks when you have nothing left to argue.
- rudiv 6y agoNope, just when I have no desire to engage with someone who believes there's a conspiracy to defame and destroy Hinduism. In my experience 'Hindu pride' is like 'white pride' in that there are little to no instances where it is not directly linked to supremacism.
- bluetreeroot 6y ago> Selective reading of texts The source is given. Anyone can read the full text. The book is available on Amazon and Google Books. > modern Hindus that do not believe in any of these There is reason to believe that caste based discrimination is still followed. Recent example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083
- truth_be_told 6y agoThe above exact post was written by user "deepglacier" and then deleted. Account for user "bluetreeroot" was created 5 hours ago and posts the same. What sort of a pathetic simpleton are you? Clearly you are ignorant of the subject matter and are merely trying to get a rise out of people by selectively quoting from selected texts. Have you even understood what i posted? Stop this nonsense and go study some books on the subject matter starting with the same book that you quote from which incidentally is a translation by the same Prof. Patrick Olivelle that i mention above.
- dang 6y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Personal attacks and nationalistic flamewar are not welcome here. Doing this will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- truth_be_told 6y agoI am questioning you decision here. "deepglacier/bluetreeroot" are one and the same account engaging in "sock puppet" deception which is completely unethical. Moreover in my original post, i had actually pointed out his/her lack of knowledge on the subject matter and also listed a scholarly and peer-reviewed paper on the subject (see below). Instead all i got was more selective quotes in response. Thus my response was necessarily harsh in order to drive home the point that one needs a nuanced study of the subject and not just random quotes without context. PS: Here is the paper again: "Caste and purity: A study in the language of the Dharma literature" - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/006996679803200203 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/006996679803200203