Position of women in Early Vedic Age and Epic Age - Dr Veenus Jain

Position of women in Early Vedic Age and Epic Age

Women held an important position in the society. No religious ceremony, especially yajna, could be performed unless the wife joined the husband. She was the creator, protector, and educator of her children. Women were given equal opportunities as men for their spiritual and intellectual development. There were women poets like Apala, Viswavara, Ghosa, Lopamudra and Gargi during the Rig Vedic period. Atharva Veda endorses that the women should be valiant, scholarly, prosperous, intelligent and knowledgeable; they should take part in the legislative chambers and be the protectors of family and society.

Later Vedic Age or Epic Age

In regard to the position of woman, their condition was not good during later Vedic period.Daughters were regarded as a source of misery. Women could not go to the tribal council or assembly, neither could they take an inheritance. The status of women declined, but the opportunity of education was not completely denied. They were deprived of upanayana sanskar. This completely suggests that the condition of women deteriorated in the Epic Age or later Vedic period in comparison with Rig Vedic or Early Vedic Age.

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