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  2. Impurity after childbirth - Wikipedia

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    The law for a woman who gives birth to a daughter is the same, however, the durations are doubled. The mother becomes impure for 2 weeks, and after immersion, any blood she sees over the next 66 days is dam tohar. There is no scholarly consensus for the Biblical law, including the difference between the birth of sons and daughters.

  3. Hematometra - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, hematometra may develop as a complication of uterine or cervical surgery such as endometrial ablation, where scar tissue in the endometrium can "wall off" sections of endometrial glands and stroma causing blood to accumulate in the uterine cavity. [1] It can also develop after abortion, [4] as well as after childbirth.

  4. Ritual purification - Wikipedia

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    Taking the bride to the bath house, Shalom Koboshvili, 1939. Male Wudu Facility at University of Toronto's Multifaith Centre.. Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness.

  5. Hinduism and abortion - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, one cannot state the Hindu view on abortion, but rather an individual Hindu's view on abortion. Even with a high rate of abortion in India, a study in 1996 showed 80% of Indian women (which did not separate by religious identification) disapproved and 56% considered it a heinous crime. [ 10 ]

  6. Culture and menstruation - Wikipedia

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    This same blood was thought to run through the veins of women and animals alike, suggesting the blood's ultimate origin in 'totemic'—part-human, part-animal—ancestral beings. Once menstrual blood had been linked with the blood of the hunt, it became logically possible for a hunter to respect certain animals as if they were his kin, this ...

  7. Hindu law - Wikipedia

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    Hindu law, as a historical term, refers to the code of laws applied to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs in British India. [1] [2] [3] Hindu law, in modern scholarship, also refers to the legal theory, jurisprudence and philosophical reflections on the nature of law discovered in ancient and medieval era Indian texts. [4]

  8. Prāyaścitta - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu Dharma texts such as Manusmriti assert Anutapa, or repentance to be an important form of prāyaścitta. [62] Acknowledgment of an unjust act is considered a step towards inner reformation and the start of a purge of the effects of immorality. [ 63 ]

  9. Category:Hindu law - Wikipedia

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    Hindu code bills; Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act, 1928; Hindu joint family; Hindu Marriage Act, 1955; Hindu marriage laws in Pakistan; Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956; Hindu personal law; Hindu titles of law; Hindu wedding; History of Anglo-Hindu law; History of Dharmaśāstra; History of Indian law