272 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
V. 90. (Libations of water shall not be offered to the souls of) women who have joined a heretical sect…….
IV. 30. Let him (the householder) not honour, even by a greeting heretics…. logicians, (arguing against the Veda).
XII. 95. “All those traditions and all those despicable systems of Philosophy, which are not based on the Veda produce no reward after death, for they are declared to be founded on Darkness.
XII. 96. “All those (doctrines), differing from the (Veda), which spring up and (soon) perish, are worthless and false, because of modern date.”
Who are the heretics to whom Manu refers and whom he wants the new king to banish from his realm and the Householder not to honour in life as well as after death? What is this worthless philosophy of modern date, differing from the Vedas, based on darkness and bound to perish? There can be no doubt that the heretic of Manu is the Buddhist and the worthless philosophy of modern date differing from the Vedas is Buddhism. Kalluck Bhutt another commentator on Manu Smriti expressly states that the references to heretics in these Shlokas in Manu are to the Buddhists and Buddhism.
The third circumstance is the position assigned to the Brahmins in the Manu Smriti. Note the following provisions in Manu :—
I. 93. As the Brahmana sprang from (Bramha’s) mouth, as he was the first born, and as he possesses the Veda, he is by right the lord of this whole creation.
I. 96. Of created beings the most excellent are said to be those which are animated; of the animated, those which subsist by intelligence; of the intelligent, mankind; and of men, the Brahmans.
I. 100. Whatever exists in the world is the property of the Bramhans; on account of the excellence of his origin the Brahmana is, indeed, entitled to it all.
I. 101. The Brahmana eats but his own food, wears but his own apparel, bestows but his own in alms; other mortals subsist through the benevolence of the Brahmana.
X. 3. On account of his pre-eminance, on account of the superiority of his origin, on account of his observance of (particular)restrictive rules, and on account of his particular sanctification, the Brahmana is the lord of (all) castes.
XI. 35. The Bramhana is declared to be the creator of the world, the punisher, the teacher, and hence a benefactor of all created beings; to him let no man say anything unpropitious, nor use any harsh words.