This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... WOMAN'S PLACE IN HINDU RELIGION. VII. WOMAN'S PLACE IN HINDU RELIGION. Well has it been said by Louis Jaccoliot, the celebrated French author of the "Bible in India," that: "India of the Vedas entertained a respect for women amounting to worship; a fact which we seem little to. suspect in Europe when we ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... WOMAN'S PLACE IN HINDU RELIGION. VII. WOMAN'S PLACE IN HINDU RELIGION. Well has it been said by Louis Jaccoliot, the celebrated French author of the "Bible in India," that: "India of the Vedas entertained a respect for women amounting to worship; a fact which we seem little to. suspect in Europe when we accuse the extreme East of having denied the dignity of woman, and of having only made of her an instrument of pleasure and of passive obedience." He also said: "What! Here is a civilization, which you cannot deny to be older than your own, which places the woman on a level with the man and gives her an equal place in the family and in society." Long before the civil laws of the Romans which gave the foundation for the legislation of Europe and of America, were codified by Just tinian, the Hindu laws of Manu were closely observed and strictly followed by the members of Hindu society in general. Many of the Oriental scholars, having compared the digest of Justinian and the Mosaic laws of the Old Testament with the Hindu laws, have arrived at the conclusion that the code of Manu was related to them as a father is to his child. Yet the Hindu law-givers only repeated and codified the ethical principles which were inculcated in the Vedas. Following the teachings of the Vedas, the Hindu legislator gave equal rights to men and women by saying: "Before the Creation of this phenomenal universe, the first-born Lord of all creatures divided his own self into two halves, so that one half should be male and the other half female." This illustration has established in the minds of the Hindus the fundamental equality of man and woman. Just as the equal halves of a fruit possess the same nature, the same attributes, and the same properties in equal proportion, ...
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