Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.1235

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c4.1235

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c4.1235

AVIVĀHITA. (Spinster). In the Mahābhārata a statement regarding spinsters and widows is seen. “Place meat on the ground and many birds will come to it. So also men will gather round the woman who is having no husband.” (M.B., Ādi Parva, Chapter 158, Stanza 12).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit