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Manusmriti : Misgivings and facts to know.

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Scripture as old as 2nd century BC which is orated in chaste Sanskrit following truthful  impeccability of Panini “Asthadhyayi “ should have been matter of splendid inheritance and pride of intellectual competence for any civilization. Yet, the discourse around Manu Smriti is based on rejection and repudiation on some fallacious imagination. Narratives have been manufactured about its anti-women right and anti-weaker Caste right.  How it all started and who conspired to take it forward? A painful yet factual truth which exists and the masses do not know is that we do not have an original copy of Manu Smriti today in our library . Infect we have today more than 50 manuscripts of Manu Smriti today and each claiming to be original and oldest.  One of the popular Calcutta manuscripts with Kulluka Bhatta Commentary is quite popular among the researchers. We will be covering in another E book how the Indian scripture was written, maintained, proliferated and of course adu...