Sambodhi 1982 Vol 11

SR No.: 520761
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 502
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 11 MB

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SOCIAL THOUGHT OF YAJNAVALKYA-(1)
R. S. Betai & Jaya R Betai
"The spectacles through which he peers at the social process, the categories in which he arranges his manifold and complex data, and the language in which he announces his results are all products of a parti. cular society at a partic alar time and place. He himself is a product of his society and confirms consciously or unconsciously. to its folkways and mores, its institutions and laws, its customs and ideologies, its canons of evidence."
Manu and Yajnavalkya--The Differing Vision
The contribution of the two Smrti works of Manu and Yajnavalkya is uniqas in systematising and placing in a scientiae manner, the Indian social thought. The two Smrt's therefore have all claims to be adjudged. as representative Smrtis of Indian social thought. The social structure of the Hindu society even in the modern days, and the views on life of Indians-both these are deeply influenced by these two Smrtis. Most of the topics and problems that modera sociology inherited from the west are discussed and analysed by these two Smrtis, of course with the vision of their own age. Approach and method of study of course differ. Not only an individual bat a group or family of learned, conscious, alert experts with a subtle vision observe subtly. The evolving thought and conduct and way of life of the whole society ponder over this. As a result, sotme enlightened observers collect the views of all these visioners, systematise them and place them into a proper scientific order in form of prescriptions and prohibitions. This is the style and writing of the two Smrtis. Again, ose more thing is noticeable. As we proceed from the first to the second and the third Smptikara, one fact stands glaringly clear. Every social philosopher minutely observes and continues to study the changing realities of social life, their values and conditions. As a result, each writer contributes something of his own to the developing social thought. As we therefore come from Manu to Yajnavalkya's thought, it is bound to be of interest to us
1. "Social Order" Robert Bierstedt. p. 22
- Robert Bierstedt1