Vaidikas and overseas travel

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Adiyen dasanudasan

 

In reply to Parthiban Raghavachari's question regarding Vaidikas

and travel.

 

The Dharma Shastras declare that a Brahmin Vaidika who neglects

the performance of Sandhya Vandana for three days reverts to the

status of Shudra and must have all the samskaras performed again.

In the olden days the only means of travel was by sea and Sandhya

cannot be performed on a vessel, so therefore any vaidika who

travelled over the seas lost caste and had to be reinstated. This

is the reason wh Vaidikas did not travel overseas. Nowadays with

airtravel this is not the case and Snadhya can be readily performed

on the same day missing perhaps one or even two sessions or perform

several times the same session.

 

On the other hand we have records of Vedic yajnas being performed

in all parts of Indonesia and even Borneo. Hinduism in Bali was

brought there by a South Indian Vaidika. All the temples in

Cambodia were built and managed by Indian Vaidikas. How did they

then travel there a thousand years ago? was it entirely by land or

did they cross be sea? One wonders how long this prohibition has

actually been practiced.

 

Dasoham

Srirama Ramanuja Acharya