(Manu 2/8. But a learned man after fully scrutinising all this with the eye of knowledge, should, in accordance with the authority of the revealed texts, be intent on the performance of his duties.)

Manu himself says that all learned persons after fully testifying with the eyes of knowledge and in accordance with authority tests the Vedas perform our duties. So acceptance of Manu smriti or rejection of Manu smriti must be defined after throughout analysis .My attempt to write this article is based on these assumptions only. Rest the readers will decide after going through it.

Manusmriti is one of the religious texts commonly known not for its Vedic concepts but a text which supports castism, inferior status of women, meat eating etc. The book is considered by a good fraction of society as a biased book used by bunch of upper castes to prove that castism was prevalent in Vedic times. Most of us will also reach same impression if we read it throughout and will not accept it as religious text to be followed.

Swami Dayanand great Vedic scholar writes in his famous magnum opus satyarth prakash that I believe in that part of Manu smriti which is not interpolated and is in accordance with the Vedas.

After going through various religious texts from Vedas to Manu smriti he founded that what Manu smriti we reads today is not  the original ideas of Swayambhu  Manu , the first king of this life circle. He founded these texts as heavily interpolated, self contradicting, against Vedas, injudicious. He was pioneer in establishing the concept of interpolations in Manu smriti thus justifying not even with the name of Maharishi Manu but also with the millions of so called dalits who faced caste based discrimination due to interpolations. Swami Dayanand also contributed to upliftment of womanhood by rejecting those shaloks of Manu smriti which tries to frame inferior status of womanhood in society.

We will understand the interpolations in better way after analysing the shaloks of Manu smriti.

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