{"id":133204,"date":"2023-03-03T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=133204"},"modified":"2023-03-03T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:08:07","slug":"describe-the-familial-relationship-observed-during-mahabharat-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/describe-the-familial-relationship-observed-during-mahabharat-era","title":{"rendered":"Describe the familial relationship observed during Mahabharat era."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question 9:Describe the familial relationship observed during Mahabharat era.<\/h2>\n<h3>The correct answer is -i. Families are usually parts of larger networks of people defined as relatives\/ kinfolk.<br \/>\nii. People belonging to the same family share food, resources, work,<br \/>\nand live together and perform rituals together.<br \/>\niii. Familial ties were often regarded as \u201cnatural\u201d and based on blood<br \/>\niv. Rules about patriliny-The Mahabharata shows patriliny. It describes<br \/>\na feud over land and power between the Kauravas and the Pandavas<br \/>\nv. Most ruling dynasties followed patrilineal with little variations<\/h3>\n<h3>vi. In very exceptional circumstances, women such as Prabhavati<br \/>\nGupta exercised power<br \/>\nvii. Rules of marriage- There were two systems of marriageEndogamy and Exogamy.<br \/>\nviii. Marriages-Girls were married at the \u201cright\u201d time and to the \u201cright\u201d<br \/>\nperson.<br \/>\nix. Kanyadana or the gift of a daughter in marriage was an important<br \/>\nreligious duty of the father.<br \/>\nx. There are three types of marriage- Monogamy, polygamy or<br \/>\nPolyandry<br \/>\nxi. Marriage norms were compiled in Dharmasutras, Dharmashastras<br \/>\nand Manusmriti.<br \/>\nxii. These texts recognized as many as eight forms of marriage.<br \/>\nxiii. The Gotra rules for women- Each gotra was named after a Vedic<br \/>\nseer, and all those who belonged to the same gotra were regarded<br \/>\nas his descendants.<br \/>\nxiv. Two rules about gotra were particularly important: a) women were<br \/>\nexpected to give up their father\u2019s gotra and adopt that of their<br \/>\nhusband on marriage and b) members of the same gotra could not<br \/>\nmarry.<br \/>\nxv. Some of the Satavahana rulers were polygynous<br \/>\nxvi. Importance to mothers<br \/>\nxvii. Any other relevant point<br \/>\nAny eight points to be explained<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question 9:Describe the familial relationship observed during Mahabharat era. The correct answer is -i. Families are usually parts of larger networks of people defined as relatives\/ kinfolk. ii. People belonging to the same family share food, resources, work, and live together and perform rituals together. iii. Familial ties were often regarded as \u201cnatural\u201d and based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":132941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133206,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133204\/revisions\/133206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}