[Advaita-l] Brahmin bridegrooms not getting brides

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Vidyasankar Sundaresan <
svidyasankar at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The varNa of a person has always been a complicated
> matter and there has really never been anybody who could have claimed
> that all his relatives belonged to the same varNa as himself.
>

It is very true.  One can never be sure, maybe beyond three generations
backwards about the varNa of one's ancestors unless family tree records are
maintained. Someone known to me, a brahmin, has a close relative who has
married a non-brahmin girl.  He says: after six years of her living in this
house, she gets the varNa of this family.  I do not know if there is any
scriptural support for this.  In any case, I am also told that some
Peethadhipathis have said that brahmin boys may marry vaishya girls if
there is no other option.  But then what varNa does the offspring get?  I
suppose there are some specific varNa names for the offspring of such
marriages.  I remember to have seen some of these names in the
Br.Up.Bhashya/or gloss.  Someone may pl. show that.

subrahmanian.v


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