[Advaita-l] kshatriya dharma according to manu smriti and its interpretation today?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:54 PM, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula <
raghavkumar00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes Subbu ji thats an important aspect of puNya and pApa.
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> But that still dies not explain how Duryodhana and other policy makers too
> got svarga due to absence of cowardice in war. I remember an old quote of
> Narada telling an aghast Yudhishthira  who was shocked to see Duryodhan in
> svarga that Duryodhana got svarga for showing no cowardice in battle. Thats
> the puzzling part - that an adharmik king showing bravery in fighting an
> adharmik battle to usurp what does not belong to him, still gets a puNya
> phala viz., a taste of svarga on account of merely dying in battle.
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There is the BG Kshatriya dharma: युद्धे चाप्यपलायनम्  [not running away
from the war].  In an ancient Tamil work there is this woeful declaration
of a mother whose son ran away from the battle: The breast that fed such a
coward is not worth remaining. Let the nipples be chopped off.    நகில்
முனையை அறுத்து விடுங்கள்.

regards
subbu

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> On 19-Jan-2018 8:54 PM, "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There is one more aspect that is to be considered. A low-rank soldier or
>> perhaps some higher rank members in the army will not have any say on
>> whether the yuddha is dharmika or not. They will have to simply obey the
>> Supreme leader and fight. So, in such a scenario even if their side is on
>> the adharma, still their death fighting will fetch them viragati. I think
>> this is reasonable. Only the one for whose sake they fought, if he has
>> taken the side of adharma, will get the adverse effect thereof.
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>> regards
>> subbu
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