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Works by ancient Indian grammarians such as Patanjali and Katyayana suggest that women were educated in the early Vedic period. [1] [2] [3] Rig Vedic verses suggest that women married at a mature age and were probably free to select their own husbands in a practice called swayamvar or through Gandharva marriage. [4]
These images would carry symbolic icons of peace, knowledge, music, wealth, flowers, sensuality among other things. In ancient India, these temples were predominant inside villages and towns. [114] A Hindu temple may or may not include a murti or images, but larger temples usually do. Personal Hindu temples at home or a hermitage may have a ...
In addition to taking care of the temple and performing rituals, these women also learn and practice classical Indian dances such as Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyattam, Kuchipudi, and Odissi. Their status as dancers, musicians, and consorts was an essential part of temple worship.
In 20th-century history context, the position of women in Hinduism and more generally India, has many contradictions. [148] Regional Hindu traditions are organized as matriarchal societies (such as in south India and northeast India), where the woman is the head of the household and inherits the wealth; yet, other Hindu traditions are ...
List of Hindu temples in India; By state: List of Hindu temples in Andhra Pradesh. List of Hindu temples in Tirupati; List of Hindu temples in Bihar; List of Hindu temples in Goa; List of Hindu temples in Karnataka; List of Hindu temples in Kerala. Goud Saraswat Brahmin temples in Kerala; List of Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu. List of temples in ...
It includes religious leaders that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Indian women religious leaders" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Sembiyan Mahadevi was Queen consort and empress of the Chola Empire from 949 CE – 957 CE as the wife of Gandaraditya Chola.She is the mother of Uttama Chola. [1] She was one of the most powerful empresses of the Chola empire who over a period of sixty years constructed numerous temples and gave generous gifts to many temples in South India.
Architecture of a Hindu temple (Nagara style). These core elements are evidenced in the oldest surviving 5th–6th century CE temples. Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many different styles, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the same, with the essential feature an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary Murti or ...