Shastric tradition legitimizes inherited custom as good conduct for all castes
Evidence
Yasmin deshe ya acharah paramparya-kramaagata / Varnanaam kila sarveshaam sa sadaachara uchyatey.) This almost echoes the previous verse Ambedkar cites. Debroy: “Whatever has been practised in whichever country, deriving from tradition, for all the varnas, is certainly said to be good conduct.” This corresponds to Bühler’s Manusmriti 2:18: “The custom handed down in regular succession (since time immemorial) among the (four chief) castes (varna) and the mixed (races) of that country, is called the conduct of virtuous men” (1886/2004, 20). However, the Sanskrit original does not use (Varnanam kila sarvesham) but (Varnanam saantaraalaanaam). — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1174
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the Manusmriti verse on sadaachara (good conduct) as inherited custom.
- XREF: connects to: Nomadic tribal shaikhs held hereditary claims to sacred objects; Nobility is an acquired ethical stance available to anyone regardless of class origin — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 838; Manusmriti sanctified local hereditary custom as virtuous conduct.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Nomadic tribal shaikhs held hereditary claims to sacred objects; Nobility is an acquired ethical stance available to anyone regardless of class origin — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 838; Manusmriti sanctified local hereditary custom as virtuous conduct.