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Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

1940

The mother-son taboo was firmly established at a very early date though one finds certain references of the incestuous relations between the son and mother in Puranic tales The next taboos to be established were those between the father-in-law and the daughter-in-law and the father and the daughter. [...] XVIII p. 397."Kinship Usages and the Family Organisation 217 child.' The padashah marriage is the normal form of marriage and corresponds to the marriage as described in the Itgveda and Atharvaveda where the bride is blessed in the words " be the ruing queen" ( samrajfil the Sanskrit equivalent of padashah ). The other form is not mentioned because the father-daughter relation was not a real [...] The terrible destruction of the Mahabhgrata battle may be viewed in this context as a punishment inflicted by the angry spirits on the race of Santanu who allowed his younger sons Citravirya and Vicitravirya to rule and marry thus depriving Bhisma of his birth-right as the eldest son."2 2 4 Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute varTi4.' He was the eldest of the brothers and marrie [...] The two usages of prescribed avoidance of the elder brotheilaw by the wives of the younger brothers and the familiarity between the wife of the elder brother and her younger brthers-ilaw would be understandable on the assumption that formerly only the eldest brother married and that his wife was accessible to the other brothers. [...] In Rgveda and Atharvaveda the terms showing the relatioship of a woman to the members of her husband's family are fully developed The father-in-law the mother-in-law the younger brothein-law and the sister-in-law are all mentioned.
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Authors

Dr. R.N. Dandekar

Pages
145
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-2 A.B. Gajendragadkar, V.J. Paranjpe view
The Kinship Usages and the Family Organisation in Rgveda and Atharvaveda
213-234 Irawati Karve view
Some Verses About The Kayastha-Parabhus Composed by Kesava Pandita by the Order of King Sambhaji Son of Shivaji— C.A.D.1675
235-248 P.K. Gode view
The Asvalayana-Mantra-Samhita
249-261 V.M. Apte view
The Script of Mohenjo Daro and Easter Island
262-275 N.M. Billimoria view
New Lines of Investigation in Indian Linguistics
276-292 S.M. Katre view
New Light on the Vedic God
293-316 R.N. Dandekar view
Lankavatarasutra on Non-Vegetarian Diet
317-322 P.C. Divanji view
A Note on Quotations
323-329 H.R. Kapadia view
Reviews
330-338 I.S. Pawate view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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