The Manu Smriti ( 10. 63 ), Chanakya ’ s Arthashastra ( 1. 3. 13 ) and the Vasishtha Dharmasutra ( 4. 4 ) point out that ahimsa is a duty for all the four classes ( Varnas ) of society.

The Manu Smriti prohibits wanton destruction of both wild and cultivated plants ( 11. 145 ).

* In the Manu Smriti, the sage Manu, escaping from a flood, founded the Vedic culture between the Sarasvati and Drishadvati rivers.

The Vishnu Smriti and Manu Smriti regard the teacher and the mother and father as the most venerable influences on an individual.

The Vishnu Smriti and Manu Smriti regard the Acharya ( teacher / guru ), along with the mother and the father, as the most venerable individuals.

Hindu law is largely based on the Manu Smriti ( smriti of Manu ).

Another early system of laws is Hindu law framed by Manu and called as Manu Smriti, dating back to the 2nd century BC.

The Pahlavas are a people mentioned in ancient Indian texts like the Manu Smriti, various Puranas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Brhatsamhita.

The Laws of Manu, for instance, are not revelation ; they are not Sruti, but only Smriti, which means recollection of tradition.

Ancient Hindu texts specify an age for the Upanayana ceremony based on the caste ( 8 for Brahmins, 11 for Kshathriyas, 12 for Vaishyas ( Manu Smriti sloka 2: 36 )) Upanayanam marks the start of learning of " Brahman " and Vedic texts.

The presence of Chinese people in India from ancient times is also suggested by the accounts of the " Ciñas " in the Mahabharata and the Manu Smriti.

According to one theory, the word " Khatri " originates from the word Khsatri mentioned in Manu Smriti to denote a mixed caste of low-ritual status, born of the union of Kshatriya mothers and Shudra fathers.

" Here again, it can be noticed that the proscriptions are specifically for brahmana and twice-born males ; there is no mention in the Manu Smriti of punishment for homosexual behavior between males of the other classes.

The Manu Smriti also notes the biological origins of a third gender: " A male child is produced by a greater quantity of male seed, a female child by the prevalence of the female ; if both are equal, a third-sex child or boy and girl twins are produced ; if either are weak or deficient in quantity, a failure of conception results.

Proponents also point to the proclamations and claim that the Manu Smriti was propagated.

Another important translation of Narayana is " The First Being ", according to the Manu Smriti.

Positive references are made to the ideal woman in texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, while some texts such as the Manu Smriti advocate a restriction of women's rights.

In the Manu Smriti, on the other hand, 8 types of marriage are specified: two involve bedecking the bride with costly garments and ornaments by the bride's family and groom's family, two involve the groom's family giving a gift to the family of the bride, and the other four do not involve an exchange of gifts.

** 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 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 his book Revolution and Counter-Revolution in India, Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar opined that Manu Smriti was written by a sage named Brigu during the times of Pushyamitra of Sangha in connection with social pressures caused by the rise of Buddhism.

It is in this context that the musician Manu Chao, with the intention of recording some songs written that did not fit into the groups of which he had been a part, decided to start a band with his brother, trumpeter Antoine Chao, and his cousin, drummer Santi Cassariego.

That album had songs which Manu had written before and which Dirty District again participated with other musicians from Les Casse Pieds, urban group, holiday, folk and gifts to improvise, Hot Pants and Los Carayos, to accompany the three members of the group.