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Brother-in-law marries his brother’s widow

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[video]https://youtu.be/Oz1VLAZkgo8[/video]

In order to provide a new life to Munni Devi, Bablu, Munni’s brother-in-law married him after six years of his brother’s demise.

In Ramayana also Sugriva marries Vali's wife.


Was this custom ever prevalent in India.


A Jewish widow ran into an unexpected snag when she was planning to remarry. A rabbi said that according to ancient law, she would need to marry her brother-in-law unless he freed her in a ceremony known as halitza.
 
This custom is prevalent very much in india in some communities.

In fact it is considered younger brothers duty to marry his sister in law in case of untimely death of brother,

Rajinder singh bedi wrote a novel ,made also into a film-'Ek chader mail si' where sister in law is in a predicament to marry her brother in law after death of her husband

. she had brought him up as her own child and was unable to accept him as her spouse.
 
This custom is prevalent very much in india in some communities.

In fact it is considered younger brothers duty to marry his sister in law in case of untimely death of brother,

Rajinder singh bedi wrote a novel ,made also into a film-'Ek chader mail si' where sister in law is in a predicament to marry her brother in law after death of her husband

. she had brought him up as her own child and was unable to accept him as her spouse.
Yes I remember that movie. Thanks for the reference.
What part of the country that is prevalent?
 
This custom is prevalent very much in Tamilnadu among minority religion. Even if elder brother's wife had one or two children the marriage would be performed. In a way it is a reformation which the TBs could not digest in the past.

yesmohan
 
PUBLISHED: 00:17 GMT, 19 March 2013

A young Indian woman has spoken out about being married to five husbands, all of whom are brothers.

Rajo Verma, 21, lives in one room with the siblings and they sleep on blankets on the floor.

The mother-of-one, who sleeps each night with a different brother, does not know which of her five related husbands

is the father of her 18-month-old son.


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Happy family: Five brothers (L-R) Sant Ram Verma, 28, Bajju Verma, 32, Gopal Verma, 26, Guddu Verma, 21,
and Dinesh Verma, 19, with their shared wife Rajo Verma, 20, and their son Jay Verma


The set-up may seem peculiar, but it is tradition in the small village near Dehradun, Northern India, for women to also marry

the brothers of their first husband. She told the Sun: 'Initially it felt a bit awkward. 'But I don’t favour one over the other'.

Read more:
The-wife-married-FIVE-brothers-Rajo-21-follows-tradition
 
This custom is prevalent very much in KERALA also in a particular caste ( only a few are doing so at present)that eldest of all brothers will marry and the lady would be the wife of all younger brothers. This is done to avoid splitting of family property. A few examples are there in adjoining district in Tamilnadu (Kanyakumari Dt) among the same community.
 
PUBLISHED: 00:17 GMT, 19 March 2013

A young Indian woman has spoken out about being married to five husbands, all of whom are brothers.

Rajo Verma, 21, lives in one room with the siblings and they sleep on blankets on the floor.

The mother-of-one, who sleeps each night with a different brother, does not know which of her five related husbands

is the father of her 18-month-old son.


article-2295380-18C102E1000005DC-737_634x464.jpg

Happy family: Five brothers (L-R) Sant Ram Verma, 28, Bajju Verma, 32, Gopal Verma, 26, Guddu Verma, 21,
and Dinesh Verma, 19, with their shared wife Rajo Verma, 20, and their son Jay Verma


The set-up may seem peculiar, but it is tradition in the small village near Dehradun, Northern India, for women to also marry

the brothers of their first husband. She told the Sun: 'Initially it felt a bit awkward. 'But I don’t favour one over the other'.

Read more:
The-wife-married-FIVE-brothers-Rajo-21-follows-tradition
This is for renukaji, now you do not have to wait for end of Kaliyuga. LOL
 
This is for renukaji, now you do not have to wait for end of Kaliyuga. LOL


Dear Prasad ji,

But who wants to marry all brothers?LOL

The woman can not call it the shots cos she is just a glorified maid cum carnal pleasure provider for all brothers in a family.Its just another way to keep control of a woman...further more when all husbands are brothers..there will be not much 'rivalry' and the brothers might gang up against the wife cos blood is always thicker than water.

So that is why the ideal way should be that the women should be free to own her own 'harem' and males should be from different families..so that no one really owns her but she owns all of them.

And with husbands from different families there would be enough "rivalry' for a healthy dose of competition and no one would slack cos each would be competing to be the Alpha male.

In case of the Pandavas...Draupadi had a raw deal and no one really cared for her enough becos all the 5 were brothers and the brothers were more interested in keeping themselves united instead of loving Draupadi.

This is an important lesson to learn from the Mahabharat...never practice Polyandry where all husbands are brothers..make sure every husband is not related to each other! Variety is the spice of marriage!LOL
 
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Dear Prasad ji,

But who wants to marry all brothers?LOL

The woman can not call it the shots cos she is just a glorified maid cum carnal pleasure provider for all brothers in a family.Its just another way to keep control of a woman...further more when all husbands are brothers..there will be not much 'rivalry' and the brothers might gang up against the wife cos blood is always thicker than water.

So that is why the ideal way should be that the women should be free to own her own 'harem' and males should be from different families..so that no one really owns her but she owns all of them.

And with husbands from different families there would be enough "rivalry' for a healthy dose of competition and no one would slack cos each would be competing to be the Alpha male.

In case of the Pandavas...Draupadi had a raw deal and no one really cared for her enough becos all the 5 were brothers and the brothers were more interested in keeping themselves united instead of loving Draupadi.

This is an important lesson to learn from the Mahabharat...never practice Polyandry where all husbands are brothers..make sure every husband is not related to each other! Variety is the spice of marriage!LOL

When the variety is not available after a few years from the private harem, an enterprising woman will open up a "harem exchange" in which the women owning harems can periodically meet and exchange stud bulls. Depending on the performance crieteria set there can be payment also.

woman thy name is dreaming. LOL.

On a serious note: There is this practice of a widow marrying the brother of her earlier husband among Sikhs too. This became a necessity when men folk from the martial race used to get killed in wars. It was a sheer necessity. Mahatma Gandhi advised hindu men to marry the widows of partition riots as there were many young widows who had gone through hell during the migration across the border.

So there is nothing new about this marriage. The n ovelty is only about the numbers. LOL.
 

Elder brother's wife is considered = mother, in a part of our society.

So, it is a bit surprising to see the guy marrying his 'aNNi'!

I saw the video and think that guy was waiting to 'grow up' and marry her! ;)

An elderly man says that they were in love! :hug:

See here:
Lovvu
 
Hinduism a.k.a. Sanatana Dharma had this custom of younger brother "producing" a male child for his deceased elder brother, so that that elder brother's lineage will be continued and offerings to the deceased (Pitrus) will not get blocked.

Since family lineage was overly patrilineal, there was emphasis on the same "stock" or male genes and hence the choice of the younger brother. Vichitravirya's wives getting children through Vyasa, another son of Satyavati, is based on this rule.
 
If the brother marries his demised brothers wife to give her a proper place in the society and to take care of her then i do not feel there is anything wrong in it.
 
...Since family lineage was overly patrilineal, there was emphasis on the same "stock" or male genes and hence the choice of the younger brother. Vichitravirya's wives getting children through Vyasa, another son of Satyavati, is based on this rule.
Sir, here it is not patrilineal, rather matrilineal... Vyasa was the son of Parasara and Satyavati... while Vichitraveerya was the son of Shantanu and Satyavati.

The same stock is absent in this case!

If the rule were to be strictly followed, then Devavrata should have been the patron !! But of course, that would clash with his vow.

Regards,
 
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Sir, here it is not patrilineal, rather matrilineal... Vyasa was the son of Parasara and Satyavati... while Vichitraveerya was the son of Shantanu and Satyavati.

The same stock is absent in this case!

If the rule were to be strictly followed, then Devavrata should have been the patron !! But of course, that would clash with his vow.

Regards,

Shri auh,

Our ancestors must have been very intelligent:rapture: I find this small sentence in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichitravirya :—

Even though Vyasa fathered the children, he used his yogic powers to make the children sons of Vichitravirya.

Does that take care of your objection? Whether this remark is based on original Mahabharata is not known but when the same vyasa has written that work, he ought to have used at least his brain power to write to this effect, I feel:happy:
 
Shri auh,

Our ancestors must have been very intelligent:rapture: I find this small sentence in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichitravirya :—

Even though Vyasa fathered the children, he used his yogic powers to make the children sons of Vichitravirya.

Does that take care of your objection? Whether this remark is based on original Mahabharata is not known but when the same vyasa has written that work, he ought to have used at least his brain power to write to this effect, I feel:happy:

Dear Sangom ji,

Well...I think its possible if Vyasa had the Yogic power to reconfigure his own DNA to follow the sequence pattern of Vichitravirya's DNA so it "technically" becomes Vic's children.

Take cases of children born from a father who has an identical twin.. the genetic make up of identical twins are the same as we know...so in such cases the fathers's twin brother even though he is an uncle but genetically he is the same as the father of the children ..so the uncle here is 'father" too based on DNA.

So I guess Vyasa could have "altered" his DNA sequence pattern to become a "clone" of Vichitravirya.

The next question that may arise is "If Vyasa had such developed Yogic powers why was sexual intercourse needed to impregnate the queens"

I guess that raw material is still needed to be the mode of genetic transfer..hence the need for sexual intercourse..but I wonder why he did not consider artificial insemination cos then sexual intercourse would not have been necessary.
 
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Since Vyasa is glorified throughout the epic, he is most likely the same Vyasa who wrote it! :thumb:

Altering DNA is very much possible because Kunti gets her children from different Devas instantly! :)
 
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