Women's equality in Vedic education

Women's equality in Vedic education:

Before the British and their native PANGOLIN* stooges put an end to Brahmanism, most particularly in the free for all Indian RAPEublic, the People of Dharma held women in very high regard as the personification of Mother and the very fecundity of Nature. (It is a different matter that many convented secularist women may not be worthy of such high regard):

Note (1) that the recital of Vedas (Mantras) in the proper way (adhyayana) from the bottom of the stomach cannot physiologically be performed by women without endangering themselves, but can only be listened to. There fore women concentrated on the Puranas, shlokas and all manner of aesthetics from art to music

Note (2) Many of the practices such as Suttee, Child Marriage, Purda and so on are Non Brahmnical but were adopted by the People of Dharma to protect their women from Islam. They may have greater relevance now in the RAPEublic of India from which equality under law and rule of law have been eradicated. But, traditionally, women were trained as the last line of defence in martial arts (Shastrabhyasaha) at the Vyayamashalas (Gymnasiums) that were confiscated by the Moslems, then by the British, and finally by the India Republic together with temples, treasures, religious freedoms.

Note (3) It is forbidden to write the Vedas, the Sookthas, the Smirthis. the Ithihasa and the Upanishads which live in the mouth of the adept. The British took advantage of this to create "Hinduism" from written texts conveniently distorted by themselves (William Hinter Commission etc) and their stooges (Ambedkar, Ram Mohun Roy, etc) for use by Christian missionaries (Moslems preferred violence to debate) and convented secularists or Indian Aliens who lacked a classical Sanskrit education or family background.

Note (4): *PANGOLIN: An enemy of India who believes in inequality under law, exceptions to the rule of law and persecution of some for the benefit of others. At present, the sole purpose of the Indian Republic, Constitutional or otherwise, is to pamper and provide for certain constitutionally preferred sections of society who the British found useful to hold and exploit India at the cost of those who the British hated and persecuted. The Pangolin is a creature that is unique to India and feeds on ants that are known in nature to be industrious and hard working if not quite as fruitful as bees who flee to better climes. (PANGOLIN is an acronym for the Periyar-Ambedkar-Nehru-Gandhi-Other (alien) Religions-Communist Consensus that usurped the British Mantle and has worn it with elan to loot, plunder, and rape India since 1921 and re write History and laws to their exclusive benefit since 1947)

Subject to these four pinches of salt, read on:

"All the The ancient scriptures starting from Rig-ved to Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Manu Smriti all talks about the equivalent place of a women to a man.
☞ “O women! These mantras are given to you equally (as to men). May your thoughts, too, be harmonious. May your assemblies be open to all without discrimination. Your mind and consciousness should be harmonious. I (the rishi) give you these mantras equally as to men and give you all and equal powers to absorb (the full powers) of these mantras.” Rig-veda 10-191-3.
☞ There are more than thirty women sages (Gargi Vachaknavi , Lopamudra, etc.) in RV with specific hymns associated with them. In all the Semitic religions like Christianity, Islam etc., there is no mention of any revelation to women and no woman is listed among the prominent disciples of the founders or prophets of those religions.
Birth of the Goddess:
The feminine forms of the Absolute and the popular Hindu goddesses are believed to have taken shape in the Vedic era. These female forms came to represent different feminine qualities and energies of the Brahman. Goddess Kali portrays the destructive energy, Durga the protective, Lakshmi the nourishing, and Saraswati the creative. Here it’s notable that Hinduism recognizes both the masculine and feminine attributes of the Divine, and that without honoring the feminine aspects, one cannot claim to know God in his entirety. So we also have many male-female divine-duos like Radha-Krishna, Sita-Rama, Uma-Mahesh, and Lakshmi-Narayan, where the female form is usually addressed first.
✮ Education of the Girl Child:
Vedic literature praises the birth of a scholarly daughter in these words: “A girl also should be brought up and educated with great effort and care.” (Mahanirvana Tantra); and “All forms of knowledge are aspects of Thee; and all women throughout the world are Thy forms.” (Devi Mahatmya)
Women were considered to be the embodiment of great virtue and wisdom.
☞ “The sun god follows the first illuminated and enlightened goddess Usha (dawn) in the same manner as men emulate and follow women.” Athravaveda Samhita, Part 2, Kanda 27, sukta 107, sloka 5705.
☞ Katyayana’s Varttika 125, 2477 mentions that there were female teachers of grammar. Patanjali wrote in his comments to Ashtadhyayi 3.3.21 and 4.1.14, that women undergo the thread ceremony before beginning their education, and says that women studied grammar
☞ Women, who so desired, could undergo the sacred thread ceremony or ‘Upanayana’ (a sacrament to pursue Vedic studies), which is only meant for males even to this day. Co-education seems to have existed in this period and both the sexes got equal attention from the teacher. Moreover, ladies from the Kshatriya caste received martial arts courses and arms training.
✮ Women & Marriage
☞ The wife “should address the assembly as a commander.”~ RV 10.85.26
According to Manusmriti there are eight types of marriage, of which four were more prominent. The first was ‘brahma’, where the daughter was given as a gift to a good man learned in the Vedas; the second was ‘daiva’ , where the daughter was given as a gift to the presiding priest of a Vedic sacrifice. ‘Arsa’ was the third kind where the groom had to pay to get the lady, and ‘prajapatya’, the fourth kind, where the father gave his daughter to a man who promised monogamy and faithfulness.
☞ In the Vedic age, there was both the custom of ‘Kanyavivaha’ where the marriage of a pre-puberty girl was arranged by her parents and ‘praudhavivaha’ where the girls were married off after attaining puberty. Then there was also the custom of ‘Swayamvara’ where girls, usually of royal families, had the freedom to choose her husband from among the eligible bachelors invited to her house for the occasion.
☞ The hymn 10.85 of the Rig-veda states that the daughter-in-law should be treated as a queen, samrajni, by all the family members especially the mother-in-law, husband, father-in-law.
✮ Polygamy:
Thus, certain mantras in Vedas describe demerits of Polygamy.
☞ compares the existence of multiple wives with multiple worldly miseries. ~Rig Veda 10.105.8
☞A man with two wives is pressed from both sides and weeps like a horse that neighs when pressed from both sides by spokes while driving a chariot. ~ Rig Veda 10.101.11
☞ Two wives make life aimless. ~ Rig Veda 10.101.11
☞ May a woman never face the threat of another co-wife. ~ Atharva Veda 3.18.2
☞ “As yearning wives cleave to their yearning husband, so cleave our hymns to thee, O Lord most potent.” ~ Rig Veda 1.62.11
✮ Wifehood in the Vedic Era
As at present, after marriage, the girl became a ‘grihini’ (wife) and was considered ‘ardhangini’ or one half of her husband’s being. Both of them constituted the ‘griha’ or home, and she was considered its ‘samrajni (queen or mistress) and had an equal share in the performance of religious rites.
☞ Rig-veda says the freedom of choosing of husband: A woman can choose her own husband after attaining maturity. If her parents are unable to choose a deserving groom, she can herself choose her husband.” ~ 9.90-91.
☞ The Manusmriti enjoins, “‘Let mutual fidelity continue until death.’ This may be considered the summation of the highest law for husband and wife. ~Manu Smriti IX 101
☞ “O bride! May the knowledge of the Vedas be in front of you and behind you, in your centre and in your ends. May you conduct your life after attaining the knowledge of the Vedas. May you be benevolent, the harbinger of good fortune and health and live in great dignity, and indeed be illumined in your husband’s home.”
~ Atharva Veda 14-1-64
✮ Divorce, Remarriage & Widowhood
Divorce and remarriage of women were allowed under very special conditions. If a woman lost her husband, she was not forced to undergo the merciless practices that cropped up in later years. Both the Manusamhita and the Arthashastra state that if a husband is impotent, a traitor, an ascetic or an outcast, or missing for a prescribed number of years, the wife takes her property (‘Stridhan’), leave him without blame and marry again. The Arthashastra also declares that in other circumstances, divorce can take place only by mutual consent.
☞ In NAsmR 12.45-48, there are three types of punarbhu, or a remarried widow: The virgin widow, the woman who abandons her husband to take up with another man and then returns to her husband, and the woman who has no brothers-in-law who can give her offspring."
(Dinesh Parikh via Nagendra R Setty)

A Note: Brahmins were essentially scholars and assumed many roles, including that of farmers, musicians, architects or warriors. But their most vital roles were as Brihaspathi (Mentor) and Poosha (Judge)  This they performed for family units, and from the temple upwards as courts of appeal against the Panchayats and Princely Courts from the Nyaya Mantapas of Temples.  Till 1921, there was a Pundit to advice on matters of jurisprudence in  every British Court in India.

An understanding of the Aryan Constitution should help you  recommence your learning of this matter:

The Swastika is the Yantra (symbol) of the original Aryan Constitution. It incorporates the Four Bindus representing the four offices of Aryavartha within the four arms. It pre dates the Rik Veda but evolved after the Brahmin Canon of the Prathamo Upanishad The Mantra (the condensed verbal vibrations) gives the four institutions, the objectives, the ordination and dedication in the Rik Veda: "Om Bhadram Karne bhi shrenayama Devaha, Om Bhadram Pashyemakshu bhir yajathraha, Sthiray rangay sthusthuvahum swasthino bhihi, vyyashema deva hitham yadayuhu. Swasthina Indro Vridhashrawaha. Swatshina Poosha Vishwavedaha. Swasthinastharkshyo arishtanaemihi. Swasthino Brishapathir Dathathu. Om Shanti, shanthi, shantihi". (Circa 20,000 B.C). The Tantra is implicit in the Mantra. Well being results and we shall see and hear only that which is auspicious and enjoy life with all our sixteen senses when the leader (Indra) is well famed), the Judge (Poosha) is all knowing, the Law Enforcer (Taarkshya) strikes down evil and the Mentor (Brihaspathi) educates well so blessing us with auspiciousness. From this will come Peace, Peace, Peace. This prototypal or fractal Constitution is replicatable from the tiniest tribe to the overarching Grand Chief (or Arya Mihira) of all the tribes under Aryan Law or Varsha.P.S. The Vedas are not "epics" but an orally transmitted compendium of the Aryan experience while the Upanishads are the wisdom distilled therefrom. The Puranas are mythology and traditional History, often distorted to reconcile  and enable the inclusion of various different traditions within the Aryan fold.  The "auspiciousness" of the Swastika is the promise of the "rule of law" that is enabled by the four institutions mentioned in this Aryan Constitution having the qualities associated with them.

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