** Manusmṛti or The Laws of Manu, an important work of Hindu law and ancient Indian society

Political philosophy originates in Ancient India with the Hindu text Manusmṛti, or Laws of Manu and Chanakya's Arthashastra.

According to the Laws of Manu, one of the earliest known texts describing the yugas, the length is 4800 years + 3600 years + 2400 years + 1200 years for a total of 12, 000 years for one arc, or 24, 000 years to complete the cycle ( one precession of the equinox ).

Traditionally Kshatriya constitute the military and ruling elite of the Vedic-Hindu social system outlined by the Vedas and the Laws of Manu.

The Manu Smriti or Laws of Manu, written down around AD 200, prescribed execution by elephants for a number of offences.

* The Science Of Social Organization, or, The Laws Of Manu In The Light Of Atma Vidya.

The Laws of Manu refer to the Ashvamedha ( V. 53 ): ' The man who offers a horse-sacridice every day for a hundred years, and the man who does not eat meat, the two of them reap the same fruit of good deeds.

In the laws of the second or Silver Age, the Laws of Manu, the text states " rulers do not prosper without priests and priests do not thrive without rulers " and that " the priest is said to be the root of the law, and the ruler is the peak " ( 11. 321-2 ; 11. 83-4 ).

It is these memories that make up the second source of dharma and consequently have been recorded to become a written source ; commentaries such as Laws of Manu, for example.

The most famous and the earliest known text is the Laws of Manu, which dates to approximately the first century AD.

The Laws of Manu, or Mānavadharmaśāstra, has recently been critically edited and translated by Patrick Olivelle ( 2004, 2005 ).

A major piece of the Hindu law tradition is, however, not represented in the main body of this translation, but rather in its footnotes – namely, the commentarial or scholastic tradition that took texts like the Laws of Manu and explained and elaborated upon them in an unbroken tradition that extended at least up to the time of the British and in some ways beyond.

The Laws of Manu, the foundational work of Hindu law, mentions a " third sex ", members of which may engage in nontraditional gender expression and homosexual activities.

One well known text, the Laws of Manu, c. 200, codified the social relations between communities from the perspective of the Varna castes.

The Laws of Manu is an important text in Hinduism.

According to the Laws of Manu these four ages total 4. 32 million years.

Chapter 7 describes Honda's stuffy household, and includes his musings on the Laws of Manu, which he has been required to study, and an anecdote about a second cousin, Fusako, who was caught making a pass at him at a family gathering.

In ancient India there are records, for example the Laws of Manu, describing the types of weapons that should not be used.

* Manu Smriti ( Laws of Manu )

Generally known in English as the Laws of Manu, or Dharmic discourse to vedic Rishis, on ' how to lead the life ' or ' way of living ' by various classes of society.

Thus, the 2685 shaloks discoursed by Manu and Bhrigu to the conference on various aspects came to be known as ' Manusmriti ', which some call ' Laws of Manu ', while others consider it to be an ' advisory ' only.

In this view, Christianity is seen as a religion in its own right, rather than a subset of Judaism, if one makes the common assumption that Judaism is not universal, however see Noahide Laws and Christianity and Judaism for details.

Druyan has served on the Board of Directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ( NORML ) for over 10 years ,< ref >

Repeal of the Corn Laws would remove the tariffs on imported wheat and reduce the price of wheat and bread for the average and poor citizens of Britain.

The split in the Tory / Conservative party over the repeal of the Corn Laws had profound implications for Disraeli's political career: almost every Conservative politician with official experience followed Peel, leaving the rump bereft of leadership.

The minimum height for the ceiling above the court is not mentioned in the Laws of Badminton.

They became an increasing area of interest for scholars in the 19th century and most were recorded or catalogued by George Malcolm Laws, although some have since been found to have British origins and additional songs have since been collected.

* On 29 May 2010 Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws resigned from the Cabinet and was referred to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards after the Daily Telegraph newspaper published details of Laws claiming around £ 40, 000 in expenses on a second home owned by a secret gay partner between 2004 and 2009 whilst House of Commons rules have prevented MPs from claiming second home expenses on properties owned by a partner since 2006.

The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.

Laws in some other countries, such as the United States, recognize Canadian whisky as an indigenous product of Canada, and require that products labelled as Canadian whisky must satisfy the laws of Canada that regulate the manufacture of Canadian whisky for consumption in Canada.

Also, in Chapter XI ( entitled ' How to compare two different Systems of Laws ') of Book XXIX he advises that " to determine which of those systems the French and English systems for the punishment of false witnesses is most agreeable to reason, we must take them each as a whole and compare them in their entirety.

The Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism has been an exception to this non-proselytizing standard, since in recent decades it has been actively promoting Noahide Laws for Gentiles as an alternative to Christianity.

* National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws – + 30 for 2006

Laws dealing with pollution are often media-limited — i. e., pertain only to a single environmental medium, such as air, water ( whether surface water, groundwater or oceans ), soil, etc .— and control both emissions of pollutants into the medium, as well as liability for exceeding permitted emissions and responsibility for cleanup.

Laws regarding resource conservation and management generally focus on a single resource, e. g., natural resources such as forests, mineral deposits or animal species, or more intangible resources such as especially scenic areas or sites of high archeological value, and provide guidelines for and limitations on the conservation, disturbance and use of those resources.

In 1841, he left Parliament and didn't return to politics until 1852 ; this time, having differed from the policy of Lord John Russell over the Corn Laws, he stood for Hertfordshire as a Conservative.

* the match conforms to the Laws of Cricket, except for only minor amendments

Furthermore, 63 members of Parliament elected in 1852, were members of the " Irish Brigade ," who voted with the Peelites and the Whigs for the repeal of the Corn Laws because they sought an end the Great Irish Famine by means of cheaper wheat and bread prices for the poor and middle classes in Ireland.

The Falloux Laws provided universal primary schooling in France and expanded opportunities for secondary schooling.

Laws may specify the range of penalties that can be imposed for various offenses, and sentencing guidelines sometimes regulate what punishment within those ranges can be imposed given a certain set of offense and offender characteristics.

For a legal backup, the German German Restitution Laws ( Bundesentschädigungsgesetz ) were passed in 1956, allowing individuals and other ethnic groups than Jews to lay claims for compensation from the German state, if they were victims of Nazi prosecution.