Widows
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widows · widow · raṇḍā · the widow · this woman · younger widows
spoken of as
2 expressionsWidow2 mentions
Manusmṛti (Sanskrit) · Vīramitrodaya (Sanskrit)
He who has been appointed to a widow should, anointed with ghee and silent by night, beget one son, and by no means a second.
The widow1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
This woman, praising the world of her husband, lies down here beside you, O mortal, O departed one, keeping the ancient law;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The widow of the deceased, ritually depicted lying beside her husband's body and then raised up and led back to the world of the living.
This woman, praising the world of her husband, lies down here beside you, O mortal, O departed one, keeping the ancient law;
I saw a young woman being led, a living one being led around among the dead;
Rise up, O woman, to the world of the living;
Letters
Widows, including those enrolled for church support, subject to specific marriage rules.
A widow enrolled in the number of widows — that is, one supported by the Church — the Apostle judged should be overlooked if she marries.
therefore the sin of widows is far inferior to that of virgins.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
Widowed women, addressed by Paul's counsel on remarriage and later held up as models of single-marriage honor and potential companions.
For even when he defined concerning widows and the unmarried, that they should marry, if they cannot contain, because it is better to marry than to burn, turning to the other kind, But to the married, he says, I give charge — not indeed I, but the Lord.
and will you offer for two, and will you commend those two through a priest ordained out of monogamy, or even hallowed out of virginity, surrounded by widows who have had but one husband?
Take from among the widows one fair in faith, dowered with poverty, sealed by age.
De Monogamia
Widows, particularly younger widows, whose vow of widowhood and potential remarriage are discussed via Paul's letter to Timothy.
He directs this to such as he notes above—younger widows, who, having been found in widowhood and having for some while followed it, after they have held Christ in luxury, wish to marry, having judgment because they have broken their first faith, namely that by which, found and professed in widowhood, they do not persevere in it.
from a monogamist bishop, from presbyters and deacons of the same sacrament, from widows, whose sect you have refused in your own person?
Manusmṛti
A woman whose husband has died, subject to the rules of niyoga and its later prohibition.
He who has been appointed to a widow should, anointed with ghee and silent by night, beget one son, and by no means a second.
When the family line is in danger of extinction, desired offspring may be obtained by a woman, through *niyoga* (the appointment of a wife to bear a son by another), from a brother-in-law or from a *sapiṇḍa*.
But when the purpose of the appointment to a widow has been fulfilled according to the rule, they should behave towards each other as a *guru* and a daughter-in-law.
Vīramitrodaya
Women whose husbands have died, granted independent right to observe Ekādaśī vows in both fortnights, unlike married women.
> A widow (*raṇḍā*) and an ascetic, without Ekādaśī, O great-minded one, are cooked in the Andhatāmisra hell until the dissolution of the elements.
, applies to a case where the husband is not present, and to a widow, because of the verse, "a woman does not deserve independence.
And this should be performed by a widow in both fortnights.