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A Comparative Study of the Local Marriage System based on “Mahawanshaya” and “Manusmrutiya”.
(International Conference on Sanskrit Studies, 2017 Department of Sanskrit, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Perera, M.A.P.
The success of the secular life depends on marriage is done according to the religion , but this cannot be seen with a local Buddhist view there were several marriage systems in bharath and according to “Manusmruti” it revealed eight marriage systems. Mahawansha is an important source which proves that there were similarities and dissimilarities between Sri Lankan marriage system and Indian marriage system. “Manusmrutiya” is a book that reflects the Indian human society which was written by Manu in 2-3 B.C and Mahawansha which was written by Mahanama thero in contemporary Sri Lanka during the stay of general disksandha in pirivena are two most important sources. the comparative study of the marriage systems that are brought up in those resources can be take n as the studies on Indian and Sri Lankan marriage system. There had been four important marriage systems in Sri Lankan among them love affairs and royal marriage system shares some common features. According to Manusmruti the idealogy of brhmin society is that the marriage life should be an amorous relationship in order to secure the generation of their own caste and to fullfill the aggregates of the father in that particular family. Nevertheless, family plays an important role in the Sri Lankan society. It is considered as the primary unit of the society and Sri Lankan families are consist of many children “Manusmruti” says that Indian weddings happen after a “Gruhya karma yagha” and after living a “Bramachari” life they have to take the approval of the master. Despite the woman is noble enough still there were few facts to be considered but in Sri Lankan society the man should be powerful enough to give protection to the woman and then after they would get married according to the proper rituals in an auspicious time. The Indian social system of passing down of endorsement is also written in “Manusmruti”. That is written in Mahawansha too. Accordingly Manusmrutiya becomes an important source of study related to the Indian marriage system where as Mahawansha becomes a consequential source when exploring the ancient Sri Lankan marriage system.
An investigative study of the "harem"
(International Conference on Sanskrit and Eastern Studies, 2018 Department of Sanskrit and Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Perera, M.A.P.
This investigation consists of the "harem" or the "antaḥpura" which is came from the Sanskrit word " antaḥpura ". Harem was a place where the king of the country goes to realize his stress and spend his leisure time enjoyable with sex. The place where the king's queens were kept inside the palace is called the antaḥpura or the harem. This place is not related to the state's administration. Except the king any other man cannot enter the antaḥpura as this place has a huge security inside it. This security of the antaḥpura was under a female director named "kanchuki" and dwarfs, neuters, and corpus men were also engaged in security service. This antaḥpura situated in a calm and beautiful environment which is near the king's palace. It cannot identify that how many queens were there in the antaḥpura. But the information based on seegiriya proves that two to five hundred queens were kept in the antaḥpura. The main queen always engaged in the things regarding country's welfare and administration. And also the main queen's son becomes the heir to the crown. But the other queens who were in the harem were not having these opportunities. Among these harem queens there were some queens who had different skills. They lived in the special rooms which were made by the king. There is much folklore regarding the antaḥpura. Among them most are regarding the jealousy between the queens and the willingness of the king. When we pay out attention to the Sinhala, Pali, Sanskrit, Arab and Hindi literature we can find more information about the harem. As the king suffers from the stress because he is the controller of his land he goes to have company with his queens in harem. King goes to the harem when he got his leisure time after engage d in the work regarding administration of the country. After having company with his main queen the king comes to the antaḥpura and spends his leisure time enjoyable. Antaḥpura is a small city inside the main inner city. The beautiful women who were in the harem are legally connected to the king after they enter the harem they cannot deal with the external society. The beauty and the location of the harem, beautiful women inside it, comfort inside it, king's willingness to his queens, the officers in the harem, the internal maintenance, why the main queen differs from the other queens are going to discuss from this experiment