"They are forbidden to write from left to right or to use their right hand in writing: the use of the right hand and writing from left to right are reserved to people of virtue, to people of race."
— Manusmriti

January 1, 1970

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Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols. Elst comments:" To compound this important mistake, Nietzsche (TI Improvers 3) further quotes from Jacolliot’s Manu version an insertion by the medieval commentator to the effect that the Chandala-s used a right-to-left script, allegedly because writing from left to right like in the Sanskritic script, and even the use of the right hand, was forbidden to them."see Elst, Koenraad. Manu as a weapon against egalitarianism: Nietzsche and Hindu political philosophy i