अभ्रातरः (abhrAtaraH)
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EnglishA-bhrātaraḥ (‘brotherless’). — The lot of girls without brothers
is referred to in the Rigveda^1 as unsatisfactory — apparently
they became prostitutes. The Nirukta^2 expressly forbids
marriage with a brotherless maiden, probably because of the
risk of her being made a putrikā (‘adoptive daughter’) by her
father — that is, any son of hers being counted as belonging to
her father's, instead of to her husband's, family. See Ayogū.
1) i. 124, 7
iv. 5, 5. Cf. Av.
i. 17, 1.
2) iii. 5 (abhrātrī).
Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 259
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben,
328.
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