 Putra" means one who saves his father's soul from the hell called Puta. A Hindu maiden unmarried at puberty is a source of social obloquy to her family, and of damnation to her ancestors.  The New World of Islam - Страница 315написао/ла Lothrop Stoddard - 1921 - 362 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | 1918 - 366 страница
...children — sons, if you please — to perform his funeral rites, lest his spirit wander uneasily in th& waste places of the earth. The very name of son, "Putra"...family, and of damnation to her ancestors. Among the Mahomedans, who are not handicapped by such penalties, the marriage state is equally common, partly... | |
 | Raymond Pierpoint - 1922 - 338 страница
...beget children — sons, if you please — to perform his funeral ceremony, lest his spirit wander in the waste places of the earth. The very name of...obloquy to her family and of damnation to her ancestors " (" The Population Problem in India," PK Wattal, p. 3). The Mohammadan faithfully follows the Hindu... | |
 | Harold Cox - 1923 - 268 страница
...to perform his funeral rites lest his spirit wander uneasily in the waste places of the earth. ... A Hindu maiden unmarried at puberty is a source of...Hindu example and partly to the general conditions of life in primitive society where a wife is almost a necessity both as a domestic drudge and as a helpmate... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1927 - 816 страница
...hearth is disgraced by the presence of the girl who has arrived at womanhood unmarried. Wattal says, "A Hindu maiden, unmarried at puberty, is a source...to her family and of damnation to her ancestors." No wonder that in Bengal the average age of brides is twelve and a half years. In the small native... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - 1927 - 394 страница
...earth. The very name of son, "putra," means one who saves his father's soul from the hell called "Put." A Hindu maiden, unmarried at puberty, is a source...obloquy to her family and of damnation to her ancestors. This attitude, no doubt, grew up naturally enough. To the ancient Hindu lawgivers numerous offspring... | |
 | Narayan Sitaram Phadke - 1927 - 378 страница
...beget children — sons if you please — to perform the funeral rites lest his spirit wander uneasily. A Hindu maiden, unmarried at puberty, is a source of social obloquy to her family and damnation to her ancestors." Who would deny the truth of these words even though they come from a foreigner's... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - 1928 - 244 страница
...prevailing custom among the Hindus, who constitute 70 per cent. of the whole population. Says Wattal, "A Hindu maiden unmarried at puberty is a source of...damnation to her ancestors." Among the Mohammedans and other religious communities the girl is married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. The average age... | |
 | Oscar Frederick Hoffman - 1928 - 200 страница
...please--to perform his funeral rites lest his spirit wander uneasily in the waste places of the earth. ... A Hindu maiden, unmarried at puberty, is a source...to her family and of damnation to her ancestors." 31) Now what influence does this attitude toward woman and the one toward early marriages and marriages... | |
 | 1925 - 1072 страница
...rites lest his spirit wander uneasily in the waste places of the earth. The very name of son ' Pntra ' means one who saves his father's soul from the hell...unmarried at puberty is a source of social obloquy and of damnation to her ancestors. Now by reciting these facts I do not mean to imply that we must... | |
 | 1925 - 1028 страница
...Everybody marries, fit or unfit, and becomes a parent at the earliest age permitted by nature. For a Hindu marriage is a sacrament which must be performed regardless...unmarried at puberty is a source of social obloquy and of damnation to her ancestors. Now by reciting these facts I do not mean to imply that we must... | |
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