Re: Devadasi resources

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Posted by asha on July 2, 2003 at 10:04:21:

In reply to: Re: Devadasi resources posted by Alissa on July 1, 2003 at 15:16:40:

Thanks for all the information.

BTW, what is your opinion of a group of women in a temple who have liaisons
(as someone mentioned of their own free will) with the men in the village.
That sounds like Indian society(including the women) did not mind the men
having mistresses (or keeps as they are called in India) which I find a bit
hard to believe. No woman could have encouraged this. So this must have
been a man driven institution. However, I understand that in some temples
these women were expected to be virgins for life similar to the vestal
virgins of Greece. This I can understand, but the idea of a bunch of women
in a temple deciding which married man to pick sounds a bit difficult to
stomach, at least for me :).

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Re: Devadasi resources Erika 10:53:08 7/2/2003 (0)
Re: Devadasi resources Beth 10:32:01 7/2/2003 (13)
- Devadasi and the happy dances Catherine Cartwright-Jones 14:37:32 7/2/2003 (9)
  - just go tback in town and LOVE this view point Aliussa 23:02:29 7/6/2003 (0)
  - happy dances Lauren 15:55:35 7/2/2003 (7)
    - Re: happy dances Catherine Cartwright-Jones 19:22:49 7/2/2003 (6)
      - does the Qajar pic show her undies? Lauren 20:07:27 7/2/2003 (5)
        
        Re: does the Qajar pic show her undies? Catherine Cartwright-Jones 06:01:45 7/3/2003 (4)
        
        Re: does the Qajar pic show her undies? Lauren 10:30:56 7/3/2003 (1)
        
        Re: does the Qajar pic show her undies? Catherine Cartwright-Jones 18:10:45 7/3/2003 (0)
        
        Re: does the Qajar pic show her undies? asha 08:44:38 7/3/2003 (1)
        
        VERY cool! Thank you!!! n/t Lauren 10:37:30 7/3/2003 (0)
- Re: Devadasi resources Beth 11:06:08 7/2/2003 (2)
  - Kama sutra Alissa 12:43:06 7/2/2003 (1)
    - Re: Kama sutra asha 14:29:52 7/2/2003 (0)

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