DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 373
Shri H. V. Kamath : I hope my friend will give us his interpretation when he has to speak.
Shri Raja Bahadur: It means that a Shudra who is like a Dhol or is uncivil and a “ nari” (i.e. woman) who is like a pashu (beast) deserve admonition. It means that Dhol, (hollow) Shudra pasu, (beastly woman) deserve chastisement.
Shri H. V. Kamath : But our law-giver Manu says : yatra naryastu pujyante ramante tatra devatah.
It means that where women are respected, there the gods are happy.
Leaving aside the various Smritis and the Shastras, what does our own— the greatest Shastra to the Hindu—says? At the time when the Gita was preached by Srikrishna to Arjuna, there were so many customs among the Hindus which were derogatory to certain sections of the people that Srikrishna categorically told Arjuna in one of the well known texts on the highest goal of any human being :
Mr. Chairman : The honourable member can continue his speech on Monday.
The Assembly then adjourned till a Quarter to Eleven of the Clock on Monday the 28th February, 1949.