Niyoga
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niyoga-206-9448840
title:
Niyoga
text:
Niyoga was a Hindu practice, primarily followed during the ancient period. It was permitted for the widows or wives who had no child by their spouse to procreate a child with another man. The basic purpose of niyoga is to ensure the continuation of the family lineage and to mitigate the financial and social precariousness that a childless widow would have faced in society. Niyoga was forbidden in the Kali age by Brhaspati and other smrti writers. It has been held that niyoga has nothing to do wi
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description:
Hindu's tradition of conception by proxy fathers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyoga
date created:
2006-09-24T20:22:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T18:49:50Z
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