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Yes. Hindu scriptures allow women to remarry after husband's death.
Naradha Smriti 12.97 “When her husband is lost or dead, when he has become a religious ascetic, when he is impotent, when he has been expelled from caste, in these cases a woman may be Justified in another husband.
Parashara Smriti 4.28 “When her husband is missing or is dead or has ...
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Arjuna spent one night with Ulupi and begot a son named Iravat. Ulupi's husband was killed by Garuda a long time ago and she was living in her father's palace. Arjuna gave Ulupi the status of a wife even though there was no official marriage between them. Here is the citation from Bhishma Parva:
This handsome and valiant son of Arjuna, named Iravat, was ...
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Ulupi was not a widow as she says
This verse is in Adiparva, chapter 213, verse number 20
Here is the English translation from The Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguly (Book I: Adi Parva, Arjuna Vanavasa Parva Section CCXVI)
"Hearing these words of Arjuna, Ulupi answered, 'There is a Naga of the name of Kauravya, ...
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