Brahmins oppose
inter-caste marriages now. But it was they who started the concept of love-jihaad. They resorted to such a jihaad, “for enjoyment and not for any sacred purpose” too.
Rig Vedic era
That ‘love-jihaad’ of
the Aryans of the early Rig Vedic days, which started in trickles first, came
to be done later, in a large scale in an organised manner.
At the time of their migration from Central Asia, they came in hordes. But only men could brave that journey in search of new pastures. “The male alien conquerors, who brought few
spouses with them, married Dravidian women...” (Kashmir and Neighbours: Tale,
Terror, Truce - Atav Tikkaya)
As usual, that
Brahmanical jihaad was performed through many tricks in the
guise of religious ceremonies. Rig Veda provides numerous instances of native
women being obtained by the Aryans as gifts from the native chieftains.
- Rig Veda
Book 1, Hymn 126, Line 3 contains a statement by a priest/composer
explaining how he received ten chariots full of damsels as gift from one
Swanayen. (“उप मा शयावाः सवनयेन दत्ता वधूमन्तो दश रथासोस्थुः ”).
- Another hymn
records the gift of two wagons full of slave girls by one
Abyavarthi. दवयानग्ने रथिनो विंशतिं गा वधूमतो मघवा मह्यं सम्राट | अभ्यावर्ती चायमानो ददाति दूणाशेयं दक्षिणा पार्थवानाम || (Rig
Veda 6:27:8).
- The later
day Aitareya Brahman (Kaand 8, Chapter 4) refers to
the gift of 10,000 slave girls promised to the priest.
- Such
instances are numerous even in Nirukt. Nirukt 12/13
mentions that “the lovely maidens belonging to the dark race are only
for enjoyment and not for any sacred purpose”. It was a clear
case of abduction and abuse of the native women by the invaders.
They had, for millennia, opposed many human
rights to those womenfolk (even after they became “their own womenfolk”, ostensibly through the process of naturalisation) and
kept them as slaves, in every respect. The reason behind such unreasonable
attitude shown by the Brahmin men towards their women was that they did not
consider those women as ‘their’ wives but only as the women of the
natives, requiring to be treated only with suspicion.
That was the reason they
did not provide the Brahmin women with
education at all;
did not permit them to read their Vedic works (exceptions notwithstanding);
did not permit them to officiate as temple
priests; and
did not permit them to wear
Cross-Thread (Poonool).
Love-Jihad in Era of Manu, when codified
This was the era when the native women taken over
by the Rig Vedic Aryans became ‘their own’
women. They came to be identified as ‘Brahmin’ women. Yet, they were not given
the rights denied to them earlier. In this era also, the Brahmanical
love-jihad continued, and the Brahmins were permitted to marry four women.
He should, first, marry a Brahmin woman. That was mandatory. If he wanted to marry more, he could marry
three more women from the remaining three Varnas. Law of Manu says,
“For the first
marriage of twice-born men (wives) of equal caste are recommended; but for
those who through desire proceed (to marry again) the following females,
(chosen) according to the (direct) order (of the castes), are most approved.” (Chapter
III, Verse 12).
“It is declared that
a Sudra woman alone (can be) the wife of a Sudra, she and one of his own caste
(the wives) of a Vaisya, those two and one of his own caste (the wives) of a
Kshatriya, those three and one of his own caste (the wives) of a
Brahmana.” (Chapter III, Verse 13).
“A Sudra woman is
not mentioned even in any (ancient) story as the (first) wife of a Brahmana or
of a Kshatriya, though they lived in the (greatest) distress.” (Chapter III,
Verse 14).
Personal purification: No privilege to
Brahmin women.
In the matter of “personal purification of all castes”,
Woman was equated with Sudra in Chapter V, Verse 139 read with Verse 146. Women
were not given the privileges given to the Brahmin-men on this issue.
Manu made women captives:
Chapter V, Verse 147. By a girl, by a young woman,
or even by an aged one, nothing must be done independently, even in her own
house.
Chapter V, Verse 148. In childhood a female must be
subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her
sons; a woman must never be independent.
Remarriage permitted to Brahmin widowers; not to Brahmin widows.
Chapter V, Verse 168 says, “Having thus, at the
funeral, given the sacred fires to his wife who dies before him, he may marry
again, and again kindle (the fires).
Chapter V, Verse 169 says, “(Living) according to
the (preceding) rules, he must never neglect the five (great) sacrifices, and,
having taken a wife, he must dwell in (his own) house during the second period
of his life.”
Same Chapter V says in Verse 157, “At her pleasure
let her emaciate her body by (living on) pure flowers, roots, and fruit; but she
must never even mention the name of another man after her husband has died.”
And Verse 158 says, “Until death let her be patient
(of hardships), self-controlled, and chaste, and strive (to fulfil) that most
excellent duty which (is prescribed) for wives who have one husband only.”
Brahmanical laws were and are cruel as
they were hate-based and, consequently, hate-filled.
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Hindustan Times 31.10.2025.
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