Sthree Dharmam

When the men folk at home are physically indisposed, can the women of the household perform Tiruvaradhanam for Acharya Paduka and Salagrama deities?

Women can mentally perform Tiruvaradhanam for Acharya Paduka and Salagrama murthi-s. It is not a practice to touch them with their hands to perform Tiruvaradhanam.

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While women are not eligible to chant pranavam, Ashtaksharamantra upadesam is done during Samashrayanam; if then how to chant the pranavam in the Ashakshara mantram?

Women are preached ‘amm’ instead of pranavam, they can repeat the same along with the Astaksharam.

While women are not eligible to chant pranavam, Ashtaksharamantra upadesam is done during Samashrayanam; if then how to chant the pranavam in the Ashakshara mantram? Read More »

Adiyen resides in the USA; women here learn Sundarakandam shlokas as a group. Adiyen’s elders say women should not recite such shlokas and can learn them as a story and adiyen remembers them saying women can recite Azhwar’s endearing hymns and not shlokas composed by sages. Can adiyen learn and recite shlokas from Sundarkandam?

As you have mentioned in the question, it is not a practice in our tradition for women to recite Sunadarakandam.

Adiyen resides in the USA; women here learn Sundarakandam shlokas as a group. Adiyen’s elders say women should not recite such shlokas and can learn them as a story and adiyen remembers them saying women can recite Azhwar’s endearing hymns and not shlokas composed by sages. Can adiyen learn and recite shlokas from Sundarkandam? Read More »

Can women render samashrayanam and bharanyasam before marriage?

Though it is not wrong for women to perform samashrayanam and bharanyasam before marriage, it is not in practice with many families. A woman’s life begins only after marriage, before marriage her place is where she was brought up and her life is with the family she is with after her wedding. As her children

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