![]() ![]() ![]() Based on his study of the translations of shaastra text including Manusmriti, he makes some pertinent observations. Babasaheb Ambedkar asked this question about 80 years ago and also published a paper on the same. ![]() So how and when did this dehumanizing pratha creep into the sanatana samaj, we wondered.ĭr. In fact, there is no instance of achhutata (untouchability as we understand today) in Ramayana, so also in Mahabharata. We observed that Ram wasn’t averse to touching a person of nishad jaati. Now Nishads were people of mixed jaati – of brahman father and shudra mother (per manu smriti), or shudra father and kshatriya mother (per Mbh). Valmikiji tells us that this Nishad king Guha was Ram’s ‘atma-sama’ mitra, a very very dear friend, like his own atma. In one of our Valmiki Ramayana reading sessions we were discussion the part in Ayodhya kanda where Shri Ram makes a night halt at Shringverpur, the janpada of Nishadraj Guha. ![]()
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