> > Eeeesh! For every verse that says great things about women, there are
> > others that women strongly oppose. Srila Prabhupada definitely
> > considered it in a very high regard, and refers to it often.
>
> No, no, it's not against women. This part was descibing punishments for
> sexual abuses and so on. Next verse is:

Never said against women, prabhu! Better read my post again. :-) I do not
oppose looking to Manu Samhita, but I have talked with many who do. This
verse happened to be the first one I came across, but there are many others
that are objected to for one reason or another, even the ones that aren't so
bad. Like the one about women should not have independence. Many women see
that as a reason to keep them down or to abuse them, due to past misdeeds by
men, even though that is not the intention of the verse.

> So for men there even more heavy punishments. I think the words
> "the duty which she owes to her lord" refers to chastity of a wife.

Of course it does. :-) I was posting it for the "devoured by dogs" thing,
pretty intense. My initial point was that many oppose looking to Manu
Samhita, and when we talk about it, sometimes people get agitated because of
certain things in it. In addition, as Janesvara prabhu nicely pointed out,
maybe when we can follow the beginners guides, like Bhagavad Gita, then we
could give more consideration to the more complicated Manu Samhita. What do
you think?

your servant,
Jayasri devi dasi