Posted: Jul 16, 2011 7:03 am
by cavarka9
Shiv wrote:
cavarka9 wrote:Non sense. caste and sati were prevalent much before 8th century AD.


Of course. But were they bad then?

I could have laughed at it if it were not so heinous a thought. Manu smriti which claims to put hot mercury down the ears of those lower castes if they hear vedas, or burning of women because their husbands died before them. Or the punishment of a brahmin when he rapes a lower caste women is to have a blindfold but if a lower caste person were to rape an upper caste women, their eyes would be...