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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.67

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 67

स्त्रीणां पुनरुद्वाहविधिःThe remarriage of women

Verse 67

परिणीता न रमिता कन्यका विधवा भवेत् । साप्युद्वाह्या पुनः पित्रा शैवधर्मेष्वयं विधिः ॥ ६७ ॥

pariṇītā na ramitā kanyakā vidhavā bhavēt | sāpyudvāhyā punaḥ pitrā śaivadharmēṣvayaṁ vidhiḥ || 67 ||

Translation

A girl married but not enjoyed who becomes a widow is also to be married again by her father: this is the rule in the Śaiva dharmas.

Word by word

pariṇītā
married
na
not
ramitā
enjoyed
kanyakā
a girl
vidhavā
a widow
bhavēt
becomes
sā
she
api
also
udvāhyā
to be married
punaḥ
(punaḥ) again
pitrā
by her father
śaiva
Śaiva
dharmēṣu
in the dharmas
ayaṁ
this
vidhiḥ
(vidhiḥ) rule

Meaning

Remarriage of the virgin widow, explicitly allowed.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now he says that a girl married but not enjoyed by her husband, whose husband has died, is to be married again by her father, with "pariṇītā" and the rest. A girl who has been married but, not enjoyed by her husband, becomes a widow, that girl, though married, is to be given in marriage again by her father. He shows the authority for this: "śaiva": this rule is set out in the Śaiva dharmas.