Status of Women Depicted in Manusmriti

Manusmṛti, the institution of Manu is the authority of Dharmasastra (rites on actions) which is the most renowned LawBook of ancient India, supposed to be a work codified 1500 years back. Even now it is a standard reference book, with authoritative civil and criminal rules, most popularly used. Manu was the first of Brahma’s (creator) sons and the progenitor of the human race. Therefore the exact date of the age of Manusmriti cannot be determined. But it can be stated that it was a law book coordinating all rules regarding human rites ever since man began to think about a fence defending unwanted social elements.