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Characteristics of the medieval
men and women.
Rajput​

Answer 1

Answer:

In the satimata is found the pativrata so perfected in pativrata virtue that she has transcended pativrata status. She stands for all that is appropriate in a married woman's behavior, all that is admirable in a married woman's character. Rajput women explain that she is the ideal woman and as such, the ideal Rajput woman.

What this boils down to is that Rajput women identify the perfection of the pativrata role as a Rajput capacity or talent. They feel that as Rajputs, they are endowed with the raw fiber that inclines them to become satimatas and that valid sati transformations are overwhelmingly Rajput.[15]

Because Rajputs associate satimata status with Rajput caste, they have often been leery of non-Rajput satis . Their suspiciousness stems from the belief that inasmuch as non-Rajput women lack the innate

[14] This conclusion I draw from conversations with Paul Courtright about shrines (mostly new ones) in eastern Rajasthan. In Mewar as elsewhere, some sati memorials depict satis and their spouses as Shaiva devotees: they face Shaiva ling s. This context could be interpreted as identifying husband and wife with Shiv and his wife rather than as portraying devotion, but there is little evidence that women see it this way, especially as they identify the sati not as a devi but simply as a sati , a distinctive sort of being. Whereas women often homologized kuldevis to the Goddess, they never did so for satimatas in interviews or informal conversations. Just as they corrected my insult of referring to satis as pitranis , they corrected my reductionism toward higher divinity. The spectrum of Hindu divinity is simply richer than that of many other, especially western, traditions. Incidentally, not once during my stay was a sati story placed in the context of the Sanskritic story of Shiv and Sati, who killed herself when her father, Daksha, insulted Shiv.

[15] One woman summed up the situation: "Rajput women have the most of the qualities that an Indian woman should have." Still, Rajasthanis understand sati immolations as originally and predominantly a Rajput practice and disagree only on whether non-Rajput women can become legitimate satis . The sati monuments in cremation grounds would indicate that sati immolations were most common among Rajputs, but there is no way of verifying this fact from physical evidence as not all satis are represented by sati monuments. On the spread of sati tradition, see Thapar, "In History."

Answer 2

Explanation:

Rajput (from Sanskrit raja-putra, "son of a king") is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term Rajput covers various patrilineal clans historically associated with warriorhood: several clans claim Rajput status, although not all claims are universally accepted. According to modern scholars, almost all Rajputs clans originated from peasant or pastoral communities.