The Laws of Manu (Penguin Classics)

by Brian Smith (Introduction), Brian Smith (Introduction), Wendy Doniger (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1991

  $15.76

  Offers an encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. This work encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the social obligations and duties of the various castes, the proper way for a righteous king to rule and to punish transgressors, relations between men and women, birth, death, taxes, karma, and rebirth.