At 05:42 PM 11/29/2002 +0530, Divya wrote: >"Steven Brust" <skzb at dreamcafe.com> ><content snipped> > > Uh...I don't think anyone has disputed that. I was arguing for the > > Incredible Shrinking God. I don't think you can find anything in the last > > few hundred years og Buddhist or Hindu teachings to dispute that. I mean, > > the Hindu's are even getting away from the *caste* system, which was > > decreed by the gods in the first place. > >There is a small factual error in the last sentence: the caste system wasn't >decreed by the Gods-- even the most ancient sources known attribute the >origins of the caste system to the "first man", i.e., Manu. Not strictly >analogous to Adam, but close. I stand corrected.