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Re: Gayatri Mantra
[follow-ups directed to soc.religion.hindu as that is more appropriate.]
In article <4cm676$i6@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, Roshni Rao <roshni@eng.umd.edu> wrote:
>[...] - not to baseless customs that allow the Mantra to be learnt only
>"when the upanayanam ceremony is performed".
For all we know, perhaps the original poster supports upanayana for
girls/women also :-)
I have seen references to upanayana for girls being performed in some
cases in ancient times. The usual citations are Kane, `History of
Dharmasastras', v.2, 293ff and Altekar `Position of women in Indian
civilization', 397ff. There are also, apparently, modern attempts
to do this. Can anybody shed more light on this topic.
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