"Mahabharata is a better source for the study of ancient social values". Provide
appropriate views in favor of this statement.
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Yes,Mahabharata is a good source to study the kinfolk's values in the ancient times:
(i) Often people belonging to the same family share food and other resources, and live, work and perform rituals together.
(ii) While familial ties are often regarded as “natural” and based on blood, they are defined in many different ways.
(iii) Some societies regard cousins as being blood relations, whereas others do not.
(v) This system, called exogamy was practiced which meant that the lives of young girls and women belonging to families that claimed high status were often carefully regulated to ensure that they were married at the “right” time and to the “right” person. This gave rise to the belief that kanyadana or the gift of a daughter in marriage was an important religious duty of the father.
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