learning Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 I have been told that the law of India prohibits polygamy for its Hindu citizens. Can anyone please tell me if there is a prohibition of polygamy or polyandry in the Hindu scriptures? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maadhav Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 it is not prohibited. it is discouraged. rama is an ideal for grhasthaasrama. however, khstriyas can have more wives. hindu treat wives with love and respect. hinduism does not discrimate against women. do you like hinduism now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
learning Posted January 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Thank you maadhav for your response. You write: "it is not prohibited. it is discouraged. rama is an ideal for grhasthaasrama." Can you please give me a reference from Hindu scriptures from whcih it may be derived that polygamy is discouraged? You write: "however, khstriyas can have more wives." Can you please inform me what is a "khstriyas"? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maadhav Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 << Can you please give me a reference from Hindu scriptures from whcih it may be derived that polygamy is discouraged? >> ramayana is an epic that sescribes the pastimes of rama. rama chose to have only one wife, even when his father (king) had four (and as a kshatriya king it was okay.) that has set the example to follow for the hindus. << Can you please inform me what is a "khstriyas"? >> kshatriya is any one who fights to maintain law and order and freedom to practice sanatana dhamra in Vedic society. no society can mainain law and order without kshatriyas. no progress in amy field, incuding spiritual field, could be made without law and order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 1. The one eternal dharma shastra describing how god descended as an ideal son, husband, father, friend, king, divine person.... to show mankind what dharma is, and how an individual can live as per the dharma under all circumstances. 2. As a dharma shastra, what an ideal wife is (Sita ji). Perhaps we can add more here about Hanumanji, and other characters. 3. It also describes, how a person with all good qualities, can become adharmic, and ultimately lead to his own destruction, because of he slips into adharma because he lust another person's wife. Pranaams. Jai Shri Ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 "however, khstriyas can have more wives." is this explicitly stated in the scriptures that kshatriyas can be polygamous? And why is this partial treatment given to kshatriyas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
learning Posted January 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 Thank you Maadhav. You have been kind, indeed. As I understand it, the aspect of discouragement of polygamy is a derived one from the life of rama (and others like him) and not an expressly stated one. Would this be correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 <font color="blue">Hi you all ! Polygamy or Monogamy is not the matter, these are the matter of time. Who is happy and who is more puzzled ? Monogamy is only one headache but polygamy ? Multiple ! The human mind's desires inspire people here and there, but if the person enhances his spirituality, he will be only heaven-gamy / liberation-gamy. So I think we should stop here about this topic. Thanks You All. If I am saying wrong, kindly pardon me. /images/graemlins/mad.gif gamy (gami) mean on the way / to the way. </font color><font color="brown"> Om Namah Shivay ! </font color> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maadhav Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 also, gita/krishna encourges control of sex for one who want to advance faster spiritually. that implies one or zero wife. brahma has created sex pleasure with the help of kamadev and rati in order to propgage this world lives. brahma's youngest son, narad refused to marry. he totally has controlled sex impulse. krishna bhaktas try to follow him. Narad chose to glorify narayan and took up a mission to liberate lives - jivas from the brith-death cycle. kshatriya dharma is to fight adharma without fear of death. so a khatriya may not live long. generally, the sons of kshatriya become kshatriyas, and the vedic society needs kshatriyas. therefore they are allowed to have more than one wife to produce kshtriyas. they however, need to be capable to keep their wives and children happy. in bharat were many muslim families produce many asuras, we need many kshatriyas. in current time however, even kshatriyas keep one wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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