For questions about issues in Hinduism that specifically affect or concern women.
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Stages of life for a Hindu female?
Following are the four stages of life described for a Hindu male:
Brahmachari
Grihastha
Vanaprastha
Sanyasa
Does this only apply to males?
If so, what about females?
Do females have a different (if any) description of life stages like this?
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How are Devdasi and Sanyasin different?
According to some comments on the question Are women allowed to be Hindu sanyasis/monks? Some people believe that Devdasi and Sanyasin are near synonyms, and others that they are very different.
How are Devdasi and Sanyasin different?
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What do Hindu scriptures say about female rulers?
In Jātaka 13, Buddha condemned female rulers:
Cursed be the dart of love that works men pain! Cursed be the land where women rule supreme! And cursed the fool that bows to woman’s sway!
The Bible also condemns female rulers:
As for My people,…
user23111
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Which activities are forbidden in Hinduism for women compared to men?
Women are not allowed to do several activities during their menstrual period.
Apart from those, are there any activities forbidden for women permanently compared to men?
Example: There are very less warriors like Sathyabama for doing wars. less…
hanugm
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Are women superior or inferior to men?
There are contradictory opinions regarding whether women are spritually inferior to men or superior.
Some verses tell us that women are inferior while others tell us that women are superior.
Eg - Verses that indicates women are inferior.
Gita…
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Are women closer to God than men?
Are women closer to god than men ?
I am asking this as in general it is seen that women are more devoted towards god than men. They pray to god more often. They take religion, dharmgurus, rituals etc more seriously than men.
In my observation even…
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why are women not allowed to do puja enter gabhara of mandir or any religious thing
Why are women not allowed to do puja enter gabhara of mandir or any religious thing why is their existence all tied up to a man doing things and women being in background. Are women less pious in previous janam than a man?
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Which Hindu book talks about how women behave compared to men?
I'm looking for any book from the Hindu tradition that explains how and why women differ in their natural behaviour from that of men. I'm not talking about what is forbidden to women, nor about how their biology differs. I'm looking for an ancient…
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Should a woman always be respected , even if she has done wrong thing and is a bad woman?
Since only women can give birth, without them world can't exist.
One man produces millions of sperms in one time and only few men's sperm is sufficient for the world to exist.
But women, they are the only one who can give birth to the child and only…
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Should a woman do everything for her husband , and not for herself?
Is it true that a woman should everything for her husband , whatever her husband orders , do seva of her husband. She shouldn't be having any life of her own.
Doing any other thing is useless for her.
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Can I melt my thirumangalyam and can i get done newly
Can someone confirm if can I melt my thali and get it done newly with same gold.
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where women allowed to work in Hinduism
Are their mention of women doing work and also helping provide for the family in Hindu text? If so please give scriptural refrences. Also I know Indian society was a patriarchy which I don't see really as a bad I just wnat to know what women could…
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