Guest guest Posted November 7, 1995 Report Share Posted November 7, 1995 Talking of sandhyavandana for 'S...' people I dug out from a book by Swami Vivekananda wherin he quotes supposedly from Sukla Yjur Vedas : "yathA-imAm vAcham kalyaNIm AdadAmi janebhyah; Brahma-rAjanyAbhyAm sUdrAya cha AryAya cha svAya-chAraNAya cha, which says Just as I am speaking these blessed words to the people, in the same way you also spread these words among all men and women -the Brahmanas, kshtriyas, vysayas, Sudras and all other, whether they are our won people or aliens. It is also said that every body was prescribed to sandhayvandanas in the golden times, for women one of the smritis is supposed to have these: purA- kalpe kumArINAm maunjI-bandhanam-Ihyate adhyApanam cha vEdAnAm sAvitri-vachanam thathA. In olden times the upanayana wa performed for the girls too. They were taught the Vedas and the gAyatri mantra. It was probably in the medieval ages that things went bad in the society, there are some rAmayaNa versions which quote Sita doing sandhyaV. There are a large number of chettiars etc. who do have the poonal on, on a daily basis even now. Apart from this would'nt it be interesting to note that SriVaishnava sanyasis have to grihastas and have their poonal actually four sets (signifying bramhachari, grihasta, varnashrama, sanyas ?) and have the same nityakarmas as we normal beings where as among Madhva acharyas giving up poonal for a sanyasi is the vogue, they probably think once renounced everything of the previous ashrama must go even the nityakarmas prescribed!!!. Thanks --sriram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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