Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4249

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.4249

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c9.4249

VIDHAVĀ A woman whose husband is dead. In ancient India, it was ordained how a widow should live. It was allowed for a widow to get a son by her younger brother-in-law to continue the family line in case the death of her husband occurred before the couple had children.. The procedure about this is given in Manusmṛti, Chapter 9.

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Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit