[Advaita-l] The 'Snake-and-ladder' game - The Spiritual path

[Kalyan]

//There must surely be some archeological evidence (an ear-shaped lead ingot 
for example) if this ever actually happened.  Surely literature would have 
recorded such a memorable event or atleast the oral traditions of the 
oppressed would have remembered it no?  But those things do not exist 
because regardless of what one line in a book of many lines might say, 
such punishments never actually happened.//

Here are the instances of cutting off of Sudras' tongues under Maratha rule (it is from an article by Dr B R Ambedkar). I suggest apologists to read the entire article -
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/57.%20Manu%20and%20the%20Shudras.htm


Under the Maratha rule any one other than a Brahmin uttering a Veda Mantra was liable to have his tongue cut off and as a matter of fact the tongues of several Sonars (goldsmiths) were actually cut off by the order of the Peshwa for their daring to utter the Vedas contrary to law.