I remember, my elder sister and brother were married by a women priest way back in 60s and 70s and she was a well learned Pandita from Arya Samaj. During my marriage, she was not well to perform the rituals. She was a regular to do Yagna in our house.
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Srinivasan MS <[email protected]>wrote: > *women and their right to do relegious rites* > ** > *T**he Upanyanam for the girl child has not been practiced.Now couple of > instances of girl child's upanyanam have been performed in Pune as the above > article mentions. women and study of vedas.* > * > One of the member has come with a fact that girl child were routinely being > performed upanayana and that > there are accounts in the history to show women did wear yagnopavitha and > were performing sandhayvandanam. > The argument took place,if that was the case then why can't the women not > study the vedas. > I thought it is paramount to get the baisc facts straight.* > ** > *Pune is the cultural center of hinduism, till date ,adhearing to our > cultural heritage.* > *The womens not only chant vedas, but in group recited atharva sesha in > dagdu sheth ganpathy. The ladies even conducted marraige ceremony. There > is sect of shaivat ladies who openly put tri lines of vibhuti ( Pattai in > tamil ) and perform all pujas relegiously. I heard some girls did perform > the last rites of father, who was outcasted on some flisy relegious > groundsSant tukaram dad was sanyasi returned to family on the advice of > relegious preacher in Kashi this was no accepted so far called themself > properiter of relegion. Adi shankrachara did come back to to kaladi do antim > sanskar of her mother.* > *you can get justification after immplementation manuscipt.. probably > manu script was suitably modified for male domination. The ladies were > called ardhangini after marraige then how the releigious scripture can > differntiate ladies from performing relegious rites. * > > > > *Observation of Swami Dayanand Saraswathi of rishikesh is attached as PDF > * > > > > நல்லதுசெய் நல்லதே நடக்கும் > जन सेवा इश्वर सेवा > cnu.pne >
