Marriage
“as sanskara for women”
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Marriage the idea
holy marriage · the wedding ceremony · wedded wife
in the texts
Laws
The lawful, sanctioned union under which a wife is brought into a man's house, outside of which sexual intercourse is prohibited.
Possibly, should God so grant, we might forcibly effect one of two things in this matter of sex-relations,—either that no one should venture to touch any of the noble and freeborn save his own wedded wife, nor sow any unholy and bastard seed in fornication, nor any unnatural and barren seed in sodomy,—or else we should entirely abolish love for males, and in regard to that for women, if we enact a …
Manusmṛti
The rite designated as the Vedic sanskara substituting for initiation in the case of women.
The wedding ceremony is remembered as the Vedic *saṃskāra* for women;