Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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THE JAINA GAZETTE
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period, he should dismiss all though. of matrimony from his mind. (1) "A Brahmin, having lived the first quarter of his life with a Guru, (here life's span is a hundred years), should live having taken a wife, the second quarter of his life in his own house." (2) "The course of study of the three Vedas (Atharvana Veda excepted) to be gone through in the house of a Guru is for thirtysix years, the half of that, or a quarter or only until mastery." (3) Let a twice-born dismissed by (his) Guru, having bathed according to rule, marry a wife of the same endowed with good marks. From the above texts of Manu, it is apparent, that a student, commencing his studies in his eighth year, continued it for 36 years or 18 years or 9 years or until mastery in the hermitage of his Guru, and thereafter entered the duties of a householder. Even in the time of Buddha, students practised juvenile chastity (Brahmacharya) for 37 years. Magesthenes had recorded (B C. 300) that Brahmans were under the care of learned men and lived for thirty seven years as philosophers before becoming house holders. Thus, the minimum marriageable age fixed by Manu in the Vedic period, was
17 years and the maximum 44, the intervening age being 26. The age of 18 now fixed by the Select committee of the Legislative Assembly for the marriage of a boy, judged from the standpoint of a student is neither unjust nor arbitrary. -(Health).
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