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 Women's Right to Vedic Study Prologue: The literature, especially on Mimamsa, is vast and too much for me, so I would like ti thank an acquaintance I met on social media who has provided me with the relevant texts and even offered their own view points for me to use. Introduction In a previous post, I argued for the right of married women to Vedic study. Now I will establish the right for all (Dvija) women for Upanayanam . Normally, people would cite women like  Lopamudra or Gargi or Sita  as evidence of women doing Vedic chanting, but the common response is that they are exceptions on account of being Uttama Stri . I will actually accept that response, and for the course of this article I won't cite Uttama Stri  as proof for Vedic study for women.  I also have made some standardized hermeneutical principles to stream line my arguments. You can refer to them here: https://bharatasamskriti.blogspot.com/2024/03/new-hermeneutical-principles-for.html?m=1 Origin of ...

  Can Mantras be Injunctions? The source of most Vidhis are from the Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and maybe Upanishads. The Samhita texts are a collection of mantras to be chanted at a ritual, and often don't have injunctions that command a person "do this" or "don't do that" or "one should do this". Often they are prayers, spells, eulogies, and even stories or statements of reality. That being said, Vedic mantras are quoted in law digests as evdience for a certain practice, so it begs the question, can we construe injunctions from Vedic mantras?  For the prupose of this article, mantras exclusively refer to Vedic mantras of the Samhitas.  The Jaimini Mimamsa Sutras start by describing the oppenent view that the Mantras are useless in that they have no meaning, The sutras then go on to declare that they do have meaning like any sentence with subject, object, and verb [1]. Those meanings are as follows [2]. 1) Description of the procedure while it is being...