Racial Synthesis in Hindu Culture by S.V. Viswanatha

Author:S.V. Viswanatha [Viswanatha, S.V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781136384134
Google: rfWAAAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-21T05:49:39+00:00

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Vyuncharantyāh patim nāryā adyaprabhriti pātakam ∣

Bhrūṇahatyā samam ghoram bhavishyatyasukhāvaham ∥

Pativratām etadeva bhavitā pātakam bhuvi ∣

76 Ait. Br., iii, 23. Vedepyevam śrūyate ekasya bahvyo jāyā naikasyā eva bahavah santi ∣ See Mahābhārata, Ādi, 210, 27, cited infra.

77 Polyandry is of two kinds : (a) “Tibetan,” where a woman has all the brothers for her husbands ; (b) “Malabar” form, in which the husbands need not be brothers, as in the first case. The latter is apparently more primitive than the former.

78 Mahābhārata, Ādi, 135.

79 As Hunter writes, “It is likely that the Scythic, Nāga, and the non-Aryan races with their indifference to human suffering, their polyandric households, and the worship of the terrific aspects of the divine, have left their mark deep in the terrorizing of Hindu religion and in the degradation of women.”—Indian Empire, p. 238.

80 Ādi, 210, 27–31.

81 Mahābhārata, Ādi, 128.

82 See section 1 of Chapter II.

83 R.V., x, 85, 26, and 46.

84 Ibid., x, 86, 10.

85 Daśratha is despised as Striyā vākya vaśam gatah in Ayod. Kāṇḍ., 21, 2.

Adrshṭapūrvā yā nāryah Bhāskareṇāpi veśmasu ∣

Daḍrśuh tā mahārāja janā yātāh pure prati ∥

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