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 Age of Rama and Sita There has been accusations that Rama married Sita when she was 6. Now keep in mind that Rama was 13, so it is a 7 year age gap and both were minors. Now yes 7 years is a huge age gap amogst children and teenagers, but this was the ancient period where medical knowldge was not advanced and they probably thought in that such an age gap will thin out in the long run. Of course all this is assuming that those were the ages Rama and Sita were, but as we shall prove, Rama and Sita could NOT have been those ages when they got married.  Now I am going to admit that child marraige was a rampant practice in histocial India, which admittedly did take British intervention to stop, but child marraige has no basis in the Vedas and indologists agree that there was no child marraige in the Vedic age. Of course, in this blog I am supposed to not use indology and western scholarship to defend Hinduism, meaning I must accept that the Vedas are authorless, eternal, and that the Smrii

Reforms and the Dharmashastras In a previous post, I talked about the Sources of Dharma, and touched upon to what extant the Smriti texts are authorative.  https://bharatasamskriti.blogspot.com/2024/04/on-sources-of-dharma-when-people.html Now we are going to talk about whether we can overturn some of the statemnts in the Dharmasashtras. Notice how I said Dharmasashtras and not Vedas, for the holy Vedas are authorless and form the foundation of Hinduism. If we reject them or reform them, then there is no point in having a religion.  Fortunately for us Hindus,  alot of the social issues that are attributed to Hinduism are taceable to the Smriti liturature; therefore, we can reform them.  Let us start with the criticism of the Dharmasashtras:  Criticism of the Dharmashastras and Overturning Rules Objection! If you are implying that Dharmashastras can be rejected at will or criticised, know that Manu 2.10 says that both the Vedas and the Dharmashastras shouldn't be criticised Let us e