The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c10.s2.17

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It is important to add that the opponents of the widow remarriage of this period were not against the remarriage of child widows. The prevalence of early marriages at this time had raised the problem of the child widow, and it was at first sympathetically solved by society. Social thinkers represented in the later portion of the Mahābhārata declare that no derogation would attach to a child widow if she married again; her sons would be fully entitled to offer oblations both to gods and manes¹.