Compiled by london swaminathan

Date: 15 May 2016

Post No. 2813

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Women! Women !! Women !!!

She is the true wife who is a good house wife. She is a true wife whose heart is devoted to her husband. She is a true wife who is faithful to her husband.

A man’s half is his wife. The wife is her husband’s best of friends…. The wife is the source of salvation.

Those who have wives can perform religious acts. Those that have wives lead domestic lives. Those that have wives can be happy; and those that have wives can achieve good fortune.

The sweet –speeched wives are their husband’s friends on the occasion of joy; they are as fathers on occasions of religious acts;they are as mothers in the hours of illness and woe.

Even in the deep forest, the wife is the refreshment and solace of her roaming husband. He who has a wife, is trusted by all. The wife, therefore, is man’s great means of salvation.

–Mahabharata

(Taken from the book Asia through Asian Eyes, Thames and Hudson, London, page176)

“Let this heart of yours be mine, and let this heart of mine be yours”- Mahabharata (1.3.9)

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Manu on Wife

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men (of these matters) woman is visibly the cause.

Offspring, (the due performance of) religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness, and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.

“ Yatra naryast pujyante ramante tatra devatah

Yatraitastu na pujyante sarvastatraphalah kriyah”

Manu smriti 3-56, Mahabharata 13-45-5

‘Where women are worshipped, there the gods are delighted; but where they are not worshipped, all religious ceremonies become futile’—Manu Smriti.

“Her father protects her in childhood, her husband protects her in youth, and her sons protect her in old age; a woman is never independent”. Manu IX-9 (The meaning is that she is always protected and not left alone without support).

Durga Saptasati

In Saptashati, Durga says, “He who conquers me in battle, he who humbles my pride, he who is my equal in this world, he shall be my husband”.

India was the only country in the world where women were free to choose their husbands. Eight types of marriages were offered to men and women. Men and women met and mixed freely at festivals like ‘Samanas’. Nowhere in the ancient world have we seen such a freedom.

Selling of Daughters

Whoever sells his daughter in emergency or merely for the sake of filthy lucre, goes to the Hell…. Where he is bitten by crows and vultures.

Whoever sells his daughter for gain dwells in the pit of flesh, and eats I for as many years as there are hairs on the skin of the body of his daughter.

–brahma-Vaivarta, Prakrit Khanda

Old Posts on Women

One mother is greater than 1000 fathers (posted on 7 June 2013)

‘Women in state affairs are like Monkeys in Glass Shops’ (Post No 2625)

Posted on 12 March 2016

An Ounce of Mother is worth a Ton of Priest! (Post No.2793);posed 8 May 2016

Most Intelligent Woman in the Ancient World; Posted 7 August 2013

Women’s freedom by Bharatiyar; posted on 19 April 2014

Wonderful Syllabus for Women! Posted by 4 May 2014
இந்தியப் பெண்கள் உலக மஹா அறிவாளிகள்! – பகுதி-1

இந்தியப் பெண்கள் உலக மஹா அறிவாளிகள்- பகுதி 2

–subham