07-03-2006, 09:57 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Gus+-->QUOTE(Gus)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Reservation needs reform and gradually the formerly oppressed and under priviledged should be weaned away from reservation.......BUT lord knows how some of the under priviledged communities have been oppressed in the past by denying education and in cases slavery...bonded landless laborers working like that for generations...God forbid if such communities get an extra hand...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kamandaka's Nitisara in the first half of the 8th century was primarily based on Kautilya's Arthashastra and was influenced by the violence in the Mahabharata, as he justified both open fighting when the king is powerful and treacherous fighting when he is at a disadvantage. Katyayana, like Kamandaka, accepted the tradition of the king's divinity, although he argued that this should make ruling justly a duty. Katyayana followed Narada's four modes of judicial decisions as the dharma of moral law when the defendant confesses, judicial proof when the judge decides, popular custom when tradition rules, and royal edict when the king decides. Crimes of violence were distinguished from the deception of theft. Laws prevented the accumulated interest on debts from exceeding the principal. Brahmins were still exempt from capital punishment and confiscation of property, and most laws differed according to one's caste.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is from the site that was branded missionary propaganda by our moderators.
Looked close at the content of the site and found the following discrepancy.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Evidence indicates that Thomas also traveled to Malabar about 52 CE and established Syrian churches on the west coast before crossing to preach on the east coast around Madras, where he was opposed and killed in 68.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thomas was said to have been killed by mistake according to Marco Polo's account.
So we may consider valid points but must not take all the content in its entirity for truth.
Caution is advised but I do not think we need to brush aside the content in its entirity.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kamandaka's Nitisara in the first half of the 8th century was primarily based on Kautilya's Arthashastra and was influenced by the violence in the Mahabharata, as he justified both open fighting when the king is powerful and treacherous fighting when he is at a disadvantage. Katyayana, like Kamandaka, accepted the tradition of the king's divinity, although he argued that this should make ruling justly a duty. Katyayana followed Narada's four modes of judicial decisions as the dharma of moral law when the defendant confesses, judicial proof when the judge decides, popular custom when tradition rules, and royal edict when the king decides. Crimes of violence were distinguished from the deception of theft. Laws prevented the accumulated interest on debts from exceeding the principal. Brahmins were still exempt from capital punishment and confiscation of property, and most laws differed according to one's caste.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is from the site that was branded missionary propaganda by our moderators.
Looked close at the content of the site and found the following discrepancy.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Evidence indicates that Thomas also traveled to Malabar about 52 CE and established Syrian churches on the west coast before crossing to preach on the east coast around Madras, where he was opposed and killed in 68.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Thomas was said to have been killed by mistake according to Marco Polo's account.
So we may consider valid points but must not take all the content in its entirity for truth.
Caution is advised but I do not think we need to brush aside the content in its entirity.