Timeline for Is the 6th section/Putramantha Brahmana of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad shruti?
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| Nov 23, 2022 at 19:32 | comment | added | Spero | There is no context which makes abuse okay, and nowhere does the verse talk about divorce."ajasha eba bhabati". There is a reason I do not identify as religious. If I support the saints of a religion, I will also be expected to make excuses for the monsters of it, and if I don't, I will be called a traitor. | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 14:44 | comment | added | Dark Knight | @SMJoe If she is not willing, he should buy her over, press his wishes through ornaments etc.; and if she is still unyielding, he should strike her with a stick or with the hand, and announcing that he was going to curse her and make her unfortunate, he should proceed, uttering the following Mantra: ‘I take away your reputation,’ etc. As a result of that curse, she comes to be known as barren and unfortunate, and is then actually discredited. This is a commentary by Śaṅkarācārya. So it is literal beating | |
| Jul 13, 2018 at 13:32 | comment | added | SMJoe | "the strikes essentially are a form of renouncing the wife" - Is this again your own interpretation or the commentator's/translator's? | |
| Jun 8, 2018 at 21:26 | comment | added | Say No To Censorship | "the strikes can be ceremonial, not literal" -- are these your own words/interpretation or the commentator's/translator's? | |
| May 26, 2018 at 10:16 | history | answered | Swami Vishwananda | CC BY-SA 4.0 |