What was the position of the women in the Aryan society [SHORT Q/A]
Answers
Women are the gift to the society. During ancient
period of India, women played a significant role
1. Women are free to join men at the Sabha and Vidhata.
2. Women had respectable position in the society. Social evils like Child marriage and Sati system was evident. The marriageable age for the girls was 16 to 17 years.
3. There were evident of widow remarriage and practice of Niyogi (levirate) in which childless widow would co-habit with her brother-in-law until the birth of a son.
4. There was evident of polygamy and monogamy.
Women were respected and no religions ceremony was completed without the participation of women of the family they could of ring and sacrifice along with their husband women could attend the political assembly there are nose evidence child marriage in Rig Veda