B R Chopra Ramayan - Page 4

i think

was marriage between dasharath and kaushalya

a bit like cross cousin marriage

though ramayan doesn't mention much of cross cousin marriage

i mean

second or third cousins

aj and sukaushal are two third cousins

means there fathers are cousins as well

i don't know much about this

but

kaushalya was present at the time of ashvamedh yagya along with dasharath

two other ladies

vavata and parivritti

are along with them

as said in

gita press valmiki ramayan

Originally posted by: cuteamanboy

i think

was marriage between dasharath and kaushalya

a bit like cross cousin marriage

though ramayan doesn't mention much of cross cousin marriage

i mean

second or third cousins

aj and sukaushal are two third cousins

means there fathers are cousins as well

I see... Didn't know of that connection before. Is it mentioned somewhere?

I suppose those days the number of people were less and they concentrated on finding a good partner. Apart from immediate blood relations (and close family relations), I guess others were allowed to marry if the man and woman were willing and nobody else had a valid objection. There is a tradition that men/woman can marry their cousins - the daughters or sons of their uncles, like mother's brother's children or father's sister's children. Also, if someone of totally unrelated families do get married, the bride and groom's parents adress each other as siblings. For example, the bride's mother (or aunts, mother's sisters) adress the groom's father as elder brother and he inturn addresses them as his own younger sisters and so on...

Originally posted by: cuteamanboy

i don't know much about this

but

kaushalya was present at the time of ashvamedh yagya along with dasharath

two other ladies

vavata and parivritti

are along with them

as said in

gita press valmiki ramayan

There are so many different versions of Ramayan and so many different versions of each Ramayan...

I have to research more

don't know of any version mentioning it

just a thought

like

raghu might have sister and sukaushal is his son and kaushalya is sukaushal daughter

raghu sister is aj bua

making him cousin of sukaushal

similarly

dasharath and kaushalya relation

yes

even valmiki ramayan has many manuscripts

i think

Originally posted by: cuteamanboy

don't know of any version mentioning it

just a thought

like

raghu might have sister and sukaushal is his son and kaushalya is sukaushal daughter

raghu sister is aj bua

making him cousin of sukaushal

similarly

dasharath and kaushalya relation

It's certainly possible... But I haven't heard of it before. It's new information to me.

Originally posted by: cuteamanboy

yes

even valmiki ramayan has many manuscripts

i think

This is also possible since Valmiki Ramayan was not written. It was composed and passed on by word of mouth. Hence there might be people who may have written it later and hence the many manuscripts...

in rsr and ndtv ramayan

i saw valmiki writing ramayan on palm leaves

is it a creative liberty

it might or might not be possible

i wanted to share my curiosity