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प्रश्न
What was the position of women in the Rig Vedic age?
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उत्तर
The position of women in the Rig Vedic Age are as follows:
- Women were treated as equal to men and enjoyed high social status.
- They participated in religious rites and were given education.
- Girls had the freedom to choose their husbands (Swayamvara system).
- Monogamy was common, but polygamy also existed.
- Child marriage, the sati system, and purdah were absent among the early Aryans.
- Women attended social functions and gatherings freely.
- Though people prayed mostly for sons, there is no evidence of prayers for daughters.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Name the first of the Vedas. Or Which is the oldest Vedic literature.
What does the Rig Veda contain?
What form of worship did the Aryans follow during the early Vedic period?
Mention the important features of the religion of the early Vedic period.
Discuss the sources to reconstruct the Early Vedic (Rig Vedic) Past with reference to the following:
Indra, the most favorite God of the Aryans
Discuss the sources to reconstruct the Early Vedic (Rig Vedic) Past with reference to the following:
References to the Cow in the Rig Vedic hymns.
With reference to the following explains the main features of the Rig Vedic Economy:
Domestication of Animals
What was known as the ‘Sapta Sindhu’?
Give one point of difference between the Early Vedic Period and Later Vedic Period.
With reference to the picture given to answer the following question:
Describe briefly the life in a Gurukul.
