1. Manu Presented by: Sarah Vogt

2. Chapter I:  Creation story:  Produced waters with a thought and put his seed in them  Seed became golden egg  The act became Purusha  Egg split into two halves:  Heaven and earth with the middle sphere in between.  From Himself made the mind  He created the soul and the 5 organs of sensual perception in their order

3. Chapter 1:  He created the order of the gods  From fire, wind, and sun the threefold Veda  Rik, Yagus, and Saman used for sacrifice  Affected by opposites  The varna proceeded by the mouth,arms, thighs, and feet (Brahman-first born)  He divided his own body becoming half male and half female.

4. Chapter 1:  The female half produced Virag  Virag performed austerities making the twice- born  Austerities: rigorous spiritual practices  The lord performed very difficult austerities  10 sages: Mariki, Atri, ANgiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Dratu, Praketas, Vasishtha, Bhrigu, and Narada  7 Manus:  Svayambhu (self-existent), Svarokisha, Auttami, Tamasa, Raivata, Kakshusha, son of Vivasvat  Svayambhu produced Brahman from austerities with his mouth.

5. Chapter II:  Veda first source of sacred law.  The birth rites of the Brahman.  Role and rules of a student  Initiation rituals  Eat properly  Keep organs in control  Salutations  To the Veda

6. Chapter III:  Laws for student entering the householder age  Marriage rites  Sacrificial fire  Feasts of the sacrifice and treatment of guests

7. Chapter IV:  Householder’s rights to property  Situations and items a man should avoid  The laws on accepting gifts

8. Chapter V:  Foods to avoid  Rites of death  Purification  Women can never be independent  By violating her duty toward her husband, a wife is disgraced in this world after death she enter the womb of a jackal and is tormented by disease (the punishment) of her sin.

9. Chapter VI:  Laws of a hermit  Sacrifice  What practices should be performed  Laws of a ascetic (world renouncer)  How and when he should beg

10. Chapter VII:  Duties of Kings  Land  Wife  Sacrifice  Protection

11. Chapter VIII:  Salutations for a king  Regulations of taking property  Suits (court cases)  Punishment

12. Chapter IX:  Laws pertaining to husband and wife  Husband guard the wife  Women’s sin  Matters pertaining to the seed  How to make offspring  Children born to the female belong to the female  Widowed women  Division of the inheritance  Laws on legitimate sons  Laws concerning gambling

13. Chapter IX:  Corporal Punishment  Acts king does to thieves  Punishment of people defacing property  Role of the king  Act properly  Sleeping he represents the Kali (iron age), waking the Dvapara (brazen) age, ready to act the Treta (silver age), but moving actively the Krita (golden) age.  Duties of the Vaisyas and Sudras

14. Chapter X:  The varna person born into  Based upon marriage offspring  All the different castes  Laws for Aryans  Brahman’s 6 acts:  Teaching, studying, sacrificing for himself, sacrificing for others, making gifts and receiving them  Vaisyas avoid selling  Rules followed in reference to hunger  Rules to the Sudra

15. Chapter XI:  Rules of giving and receiving (sometimes forceful)  Sacrifice  Penance  Physical appearance of crimes  Purification rites  Mortal sin (mahapataka)/ minor offenses equals to what specific offense  Penance performed in regard to situation

16. Chapter XII:  Connexion with actions  Punishment in next life based upon offenses committed  Sinful acts committed in body-something inanimate, sins committed by speech-birds or beasts, mental sins- lower caste.  Following the Veda will lead to salvation.