Spare Manu

                                                          

Manu Sastre, the moral code, laid down 

By Manu, though outdated by time gone,

Still stands worthy of many codes drawn

And is not wise to be thrown out outright.

Each set of codes is set to govern a sect

Conditioned by life of the coder’s time,

With no right bequeathed to latter sects

To condemn the coder for the codes set.

The theory propounded by the scientists

Are being replaced by the successors

Without any attack on the former. Mind.

Spare Manu

27.06.2004

[Manu has written a moral code for Hindus more than thousand years back, some of which are controversially objected now}