www.sacred-texts.com\/hin\/m13\/m13b091.htm<\/a><\/p>\nVyasa Samhita 2.2-4 \u201c\u2026of auspicious signs, clad in silken garments, and not above eight years of age, and whose paternal ancestors to the tenth degree in the ascending line were all men of renown, should be solemnly wedded by a (twice-born) according to religious rites, if preferred in marriage. [7] The sin incidental to (an act of) procuring abortion (lie: destruction of the foetus) is committed, if through the negligence of her giver a girl menstruates before her marriage. He, who does not give away a daughter in marriage before she attains puberty, becomes degraded.\u201d Tr. Manmatha Nath Dutt<\/p>\n
Skanda Purana VII.I.205.80-86 \u201cIf a girl, before being consecrated by marriage rites, has her menses in the house of her father, her Pitrs become fallen and that girl is called Vrsali. If a Brahmana knowingly marries that girl, they say, he is not fit for a Sraddha. He cannot be in the same row as others. He is a Vrsalipati. Gauri virgin is the best and most important. Rohini is considered as Madhyama (middling). Rajasvala should be known as the bases though equal to her (Rohini) image. When there is no menstrual flow, she is Gauri. When there is the flow she is Rohini. If the girlhood has not fully developed she is Kanya. One without breasts is Nagnika. A seven year old girl is Gauri; nine year old is Nagnika. Ten year old shall be Kanya; above that she is Rajasvala. Through breasts she spoils the family of her father and through menstrual flow, she spoils the desirable goal (salvation) and pleasures of the other worlds of her father. He who marries one with menstrual flow should be known as Vrsalipati.\u201d Tr. G.V. Tagare<\/p>\n
Devi Bhagavatam 9.41.26-47 \u201cThe World-Mother never stays even for a moment in his house who eats at the house of one who marries an unmarried girl twelve years old in whom menstruation has commenced\u2026\u201d Tr. Swami Vijnananda<\/p>\n
Above two verses considers the man sinful who marries a girl who started her menstruation in her father\u2019s house which means a person should marry a girl who has not yet started her menstrual period.<\/p>\n
Proof that girls as young as 10 were married off<\/strong><\/p>\nDevi Bhagavatam 3.27.40 \u201cMy daughter has come to a marriageable age; I have no money. Her age has exceeded ten years; the marriageable age limit has been exceeded. Alas! What am I to do?\u201d Tr. Swami Vijnananda<\/p>\n
Radha the concubine and aunt of Krishna was married to Rayana at the age of 12,<\/p>\n
Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Prakriti Khanda, Chapter 49, Verses 36-40 “In the Varaha-kalpa, Radhika was born in the village of Gokula in the family of a Vaisya cowherd. She was born without any human contact…After the expiry of twelve years<\/span>, finding her becoming youthful, she was married to a trader named Rayana<\/span>…” Tr. Shanti Lal Nagar, edited by Acharya Ramesh Chaturvedi<\/p>\nDevi Bhagavatam 5.17.3-26 \u201cThe King Chandrasena, the father, was very pleased to have this beautiful daughter and gladly called her by the name of Mandodar\u00ee. This daughter began to grow daily like the phases of the Moon. When she grew ten years old, she became very handsome. The King now became anxious to have a suitable bridegroom and used to think of it everyday. The Br\u00e2hmins then told the king that there was a prince named Kambugr\u00eeva, the intelligent son of the powerful king Sudhanv\u00e2 of Madra\u201d Tr. Swami Vijnananda<\/p>\n
Skanda Purana III.iii.18.4-6 \u201cWhen she was aged twelve years, the girl had beauty of form and all good features. A Brahmana named Padmanabha whose wife had passed away, requested for the haand of the girl. The Brahmana had plenty of wealth. He was calm and qui. He was a permanent companion of the king. So the father of the girl did not dare to refuse. He gave the daughter to him. The marriage was celebrated at midday\u2026\u201d Tr. G.V. Tagare<\/p>\n
Skanda Purana VII.I.166.17-20 \u201c\u2026You are to behave in a manner that will give no cause to the Devas to despise me. My dear daughter, I have heard this cited in sacred scriptures. \u2018If without being consecrated (in marriage) a girl discharges her menses in her father\u2019s house the father earns the sin of Brahmana-slaying and the girl is known as a Vrsali (Sudra). Therefore, I am sending you off in the company of aged ministers. Hurry up. Choose your own husband and decide.\u201d Tr. G.V. Tagare<\/p>\n
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RESPONSE<\/strong><\/p>\nSome Hindus have attempted to refute the above points with futile arguments, so here\u2019s a response to those apologists. I have quoted dozens of verses, several apologists have attempted to refute only 20-30% of the article which means a large part of the article is irrefutable.<\/p>\n
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Apologists\u2019 explanation<\/strong>: According to Rig Veda 10.85.40-41 and Padma Purana V.118.2-15 a girl should be given in marriage only after she attains puberty.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Response<\/strong>: The verse actually states the stages of development of a girl, it doesn\u2019t talk about marrying off daughter only after she attains puberty, in the Atharved it\u2019s a prayer made by a man thanking gods for bestowing riches and sons. A girl can conceive a child only after she attains puberty and that\u2019s what it\u2019s stating here. The apologist has quoted Padma Purana verse out of context (to buttress his RigVed claim) otherwise the verse itself would have refuted the explanation of the apologist, here are the next lines of the verse,<\/p>\nPadma Purana V.118.2-15 “When small hair appears (on the private parts), Soma enjoys a daughter. When she attains puberty, gandharvas (enjoy her); and when breasts appear (prominent), Fire (enjoys her). A man should marry his daughter as long as she has not attained puberty<\/u>. Wise men recommend a girl’s marriage when she is eight years old<\/u>. She should be duly given to a brahmana who is well-versed in sacred learning, possesses moral virtue, has actually studied Vedas, and has observed celibacy. This is said to be the rule regarding a daughter to be given (in marriage).\u201d Tr. N.A. Deshpande<\/p>\n
What is alluded here is that a girl should be given in marriage before she is enjoyed by gods i.e. before she attains puberty, these are Hindu god Shiva\u2019s words. Rigved verses 36-38 indicates that the bride was already married and then she started becoming mature.<\/p>\n
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Apologists\u2019 explanation<\/strong>: The translation of Valmiki Ramayana about the age of Sita is wrong, here\u2019s the correct translation, \u201cShe had been in Ikshwaku dynasty of King Dashratha for two years<\/u><\/strong> and got all the materialistic pleasure available for human kind.<\/em> Thereafter, in the third year<\/strong>, the king and lord Dasaratha consulted other kings and ministers to consecrate Rama.\u201d <\/em>The word Dash here doesn\u2019t mean 10 but mentions Dasharath, so Sita\u2019s age at the time of her marriage was 18-2=16 not 6.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Response<\/strong>: The Sanskrit words mentioned in these verses are so simple that even those fluent in Hindi language can define those words. I am quoting the Sanskrit verses,<\/p>\n\u0909\u0937\u093f\u0924\u094d\u0935\u093e \u0926\u094d\u0935\u093e \u0926\u0936<\/u> \u0938\u092e\u093e\u0903 \u0907\u0915\u094d\u0937\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0915\u0942\u0923\u093e\u092e\u094d \u0928\u093f\u0935\u0947\u0936\u0928\u0947 |
\n\u092d\u0941\u0902\u091c\u093e\u0928\u093e \u092e\u093e\u0928\u0941\u0937\u093e\u0928\u094d \u092d\u094b\u0917\u093e\u0928\u094d \u0938\u0930\u094d\u0935 \u0915\u093e\u092e \u0938\u092e\u0943\u0926\u094d\u0927\u093f\u0928\u0940 ||<\/p>\n
\u0924\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u0924\u094d\u0930\u092f\u094b \u0926\u0936\u0947 \u0935\u0930\u094d\u0937\u0947<\/u> \u0930\u093e\u091c \u0905\u092e\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930\u094d\u092f\u0924 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092d\u0941\u0903 |
\n\u0905\u092d\u093f\u0937\u0947\u091a\u092f\u093f\u0924\u0941\u092e\u094d \u0930\u093e\u092e\u092e\u094d \u0938\u092e\u0947\u0924\u094b \u0930\u093e\u091c \u092e\u0928\u094d\u0924\u094d\u0930\u093f\u092d\u093f\u0903 || \u0969.\u096a\u096d.\u096a-\u096b<\/p>\n
The apologist instead of explaining the verses has mischievously mistranslated his scripture. If the word Dasha here doesn\u2019t mean Ten but rather mentions the name of Dasharath then I am eager to know how would the apologist write twelve and thirteen in Sanskrit language? The word Dva means two, Dasha means ten, Varsha means years, which is quite same for the next verse wherein the word Trayo means three. These words are so simple that I don\u2019t find the necessity to quote any lexicon here. In Shiva Purana, Section 1 Vidyesvara Samhita, Chapter 15, verses 42-45 the same word Dva-Dash is mentioned which is translated by all scholars as Twelve. Apologists are conveniently ignoring Skanda Purana Book III, Section 2, Chapter 30, Verses 8-9 which leaves no doubt regarding the age of Sita at the time of her marriage, it explicitly mentions that Sita was 6 years old at the time of her marriage. To convince the apologist, let me quote another verse from Valmiki Ramayana about the age of Sita at the time she was wedded to Rama,<\/p>\n
Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kanda 5, Chapter 33, Verses 13-14 \u201cI stayed in Rama’s house there for twelve years, enjoying the worldly pleasures belonging to human kind and fulfilling all my desires. Thereafter, in the thirteenth year, King Dasaratha along with his preceptors started to perform anointment of the kingdom to Rama, a celebrity of Ikshvaku dynasty.\u201d Tr. Desiraju Hanumantha Rao<\/p>\n
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After calculating the years mentioned here we get the same number that Sita was 6 years old.<\/p>\n
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Apologists\u2019 Claim<\/strong>: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.53.51 is a mistranslation, the verse nowhere states that Rukmini had not attained puberty at the time of her marriage with Krishna. There\u2019s no word for puberty here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Response<\/strong>: The Sanskrit words mentioned in this verse are Stanim (breasts) and Vyanjat (budding) which means her breasts had started budding, these words are used as idioms to state that Rukmini had not yet attained puberty, because the breasts of a girl doesn\u2019t start budding when she is a sixteen years old girl (as apologists claim), by the time a girl reaches the age of 16 she becomes an adult. Almost all translators have translated the same.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Apologists\u2019 Claim<\/strong>: Skanda Purana Book V, Section iii, Chapter 142, Verses 8-79 cannot be used to show that Rukmini was 8 years old because the Sanskrit words mentioned here are Adashta Varsha in which the word Ada is ambiguous so it may mean anything like she has become twice the age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Response<\/strong>: Even the apologist himself is confused, or maybe he is deliberately twisting words in order to cause confusion in the minds of readers. The apologist instead of buttressing his claim with lexicons or texts is rather making assumptions. The Sanskrit words mentioned here are quite clear, words Ashta Varsha means 8 years. This claim of mine about 8 years old Rukmini been wedded to Krishna as per Skanda Purana remains uncontested. Here too I don\u2019t find the necessity to quote lexicons to refute the pathetic claim of the apologist.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Apologists\u2019 explanation<\/strong>: As per Harivamsa Purana Visnuparva 2.59.37 Rukmini was sixteen years old when she was married to Krishna.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Response<\/strong>: To my knowledge, there are no Sanskrit words in this verse that can be translated as \u2018sixteen years old\u2019, though the text describes Rukmini as an adult. Apologist can quote the Sanskrit words which translates as 16 years old.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Apologists also quotes a verse from Brahmavaivarta Purana where Rukmini is described as of having attained puberty. But does that negate Skanda Purana and Bhagavad Purana verses? Does that nullify or refute verses from Skanda and Bhagavad Purana? No, rather they are to be taken as different versions.<\/p>\n
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Apologists\u2019 explanation<\/strong>: The gods and sages didn\u2019t attempt to marry off 6 years old Parvati to Shiva, the reference of Vamana Purana given is wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Response<\/strong>: This story is mentioned in Vamana Purana, Saromahatmya chapter 25, verses 1-27, following is the screenshot from the scripture,<\/p>\nMy emphasis was not on when Parvati was married to Shiva as Hindu scriptures don\u2019t mention the age of Parvati at the time of her marriage. The Hindu gods had already made up that 6 year old Parvati would be able to hold Shiva\u2019s semen i.e., she would be able to conceive the child of Shiva.
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Apologists\u2019 explanation<\/strong>: Manu Smriti 9.94; Mahabharata 13.44.13 A man, aged thirty years, shall marry a maiden of ten or twelve. These verses merely tells the man to simply marry a girl younger than him, these shouldn’t be taken literally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Response<\/strong>: Apologists are playing with words to distort their Hindu texts. It\u2019s not a commandment that a man should marry only when he is 30 years old or that a girl should be given in marriage only when she is 10 or 12 years old, and this is what Acharya Medhatithi is also alluding to. A man can marry at the age of 25 given that the girl is very much younger than him, this is already mentioned in Vishnu Purana,<\/p>\nVishnu Purana 3.10.16 \u201cIf he marry, he must select a maiden who is of a third of his age.\u201d Tr. H.H. Wilson<\/p>\n
So a 40 year old man should wed a girl who is around 13 years old, if a man is 20 years old then he must marry a girl who is one third of his age that is he must marry a 6 or 7 years old girl and this is exactly what Mahabharata and Manu Smriti states. The apologists are deliberately ignoring the age gap mentioned in Mahabharata and Manu Smriti that a 30 years old adult man should wed a prepubescent girl of 10-12 years who is one third of his age.<\/p>\n
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Apologists\u2019 explanation<\/strong>: Vishnu Smriti 24.41 makes it clear that only those girls are considered degraded who haven\u2019t given in marriage before they started menstruating, it doesn\u2019t say keeping a married daughter who started menstruating in father\u2019s home is degraded. It is because a girl has to stay in father\u2019s home after her marriage till she completes her third year after she started menstruating, as we seen earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Response<\/strong>: The author himself seems to be confused, he has acknowledged that \u201conly those girls are considered degraded who haven\u2019t given in marriage before they started menstruating\u201d. As the apologist has admitted it, I don\u2019t find the reason to explain it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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