[Assam] Remember These?

[Chan Mahanta]

Somewhat accidentally, I ran into these exchanges in assamnet from 2002.
Remember these ?

cm
Disclaimer to Ram: It is not intended for Bamun-bashing Ram :-). Just 
to show that these are arguments from desi-intellectuals!


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From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at earthlink.net>
Date: Tue Jan 22, 2002  1:24 pm
Subject: Three easy pieces from : www.hinduism.co.za
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Rajen: Look at third paragraph. My guess was wrong :-).

Alpana: Do you think "Hindu shame" has been built on things like these :-)?

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Was the Kaaba Originally a Hindu Temple?
By  P.N. Oak (Historian)

Glancing through some research material recently, I was pleasantly surprised
to come across a reference to a king Vikramaditya inscription found in the
Kaaba in Mecca proving beyond doubt that the Arabian Peninsula formed a
part of his Indian Empire.The text of the crucial Vikramaditya inscription,
found inscribed on a gold dish hung inside the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, is
found recorded on page 315 of a volume  known as 'Sayar-ul-Okul' treasured
in the Makhtab-e-Sultania library in Istanbul, Turkey.


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The status of a Brahmana is incapable
of acquisition by persons begotten
on uncleansed souls.

KSHATRIYA,VAISYA AND SUDRA CANNOT BECOME BRAHMANA
THE MAHABHARATA, ANUSASANA PARVA
sec.XXVIII,

Bhishma said:The status of a Brahmana is incapable of acquisition by a
person belonging to any of the three other orders. That status is the
highest with
respect to all creatures. Travelling through innumerable orders of
existence, by undergoing repeated births, one at last, in some birth,
becomes born as a Brahmana. The status of a Brahmana is incapable of
acquisition by persons begotten on uncleansed souls. The status
of a Brahmana, which is the foremost of everything, is incapable of being
won by penances.That status is really incapable of being
obtained by persons of uncleansed souls.


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Brahmanas and Sudras
 From Tulasi Ramayana
Aranya Kanda 32-33

   Addressing a Gandharva (Kabandha resurrected as Gandharva)

Sri Rama said: Listen, O Gandharva, to what I tell you: I cannot tolerate
an enemy of the Brahamanas (Brahmins). He who without guile in
thought, word and deed does service to the Brahmanas (the very gods on
earth), wins over Brahma, Siva, Myself and all other divinities.

A Brahmana, even though he curses you, beats you or speaks harsh words to
you, is still worthy of adoration: so declare the saints. A
Brahmana must be respected, though lacking in amiability and virtue; not so
a Sudra, though possessing a host of virtues and rich in
knowledge.

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