"Vrttavicikitsa"

Vrttavicikitsa:- These represent certain doubts regarding man's conduct; for example, in a country like Bharatham, which incorporates in its vast embrace a variety of geographical conditions, habits and customs, flora and fauna, we  find even contrary and opposite conducts recognised as ethical and moral in different parts of the country . 

 

 

2.  Under matriarchal system, the uncle's daughter can be married by the nephew, wile in other parts of Bharatham it is tabooed.

 

 

3. In one place the bridegroom  is purchased by the father-in-law with a dowry for the sad privilege of accepting his daughter as wife.

 

 

4. While in certain parts the girl is purchased as cattle for agricultural purposes!

 

 

5. In majority places if one husband for a woman is considered as normal, but for certain others one man marries maximum four women as wives and in another tribe three or four men( brothers) maintain a single woman.

 

 

6. Thus a student comes to doubt as to what is the right conduct; and he is directed in all such cases to follow the eminent men of culture in the district.