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Patriarchal control is real, and the Hindu society admits this of itself, states Gross, yet the Hindu culture distinguishes between authority – which men hold, and power – which both men and women hold. [165] Women in the Hindu tradition have the power, and they exercise that power to take control of situations that are important to them. [165]
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Works by ancient Indian grammarians such as Patanjali and Katyayana suggest that women were educated in the early Vedic period. [1] [2] [3] Rig Vedic verses suggest that women married at a mature age and were probably free to select their own husbands in a practice called swayamvar or through Gandharva marriage. [4]
Panchakanya, a pre-1945 lithograph from Ravi Varma Press.. The Panchakanya (Sanskrit: पञ्चकन्या, romanized: Pañcakanyā, lit. 'Five maidens') is a group of five iconic women of the Hindu epics, extolled in a hymn and whose names are believed to dispel sin when recited.
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
In the Hindu tradition, [citation needed] marriage is viewed as the only religious initiation (diksha) permissible to women. Thus, the dedication was a symbolic "marriage" of the pubescent girl to the temple's deity.
Apsara – Type of female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist culture; Devadasi – Woman dedicated to the worship of a temple's patron god; Vajrayogini – Tantric Buddhist female Buddha and ḍākiṇī; Women in Hinduism – Position of women in the religious texts of Hinduism; Yakshini – Class of nature spirits in Hindu ...
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