Marriage between cousins during Mahabharat period - Page 4

Originally posted by: poseidon2

My replies in red

Our sage taught their decendents why it is imortant to keep the blood pure and why same caste marriages are important and inter caste marriages are frowned upon. Why gotra divided people to maintain the sanctity of a commiunity but I call it a human body. May be they knew that it is importnat to remian disease free and they were far more learned from us today, they knew what can happen and I have firm belief that as belief in Ved declined, belief in dharm also declined and adharm arose but then our sages knew this very well that this will happen.

Bhavishya Puran says it all, the prediction how humans will become greedy, selfish, corrupt, adharm will increase, Homosexualtiy, sex, incestual relationships, one day will come when human will eat humans, canibalism will come on earth and we already hear that this man ate his own child or this owman ate etc Psychological disorders would persist. I have not read bhavishya Puran but I read something like that that sages have already predicted what is happening today back then. One of the prediction was that women will rule as they are ruling today. How this world would get destroyed. I read that the same way the world was made, it's reverse would happen to destroy it. Like we reverse a movie.

you did not understand what I said marrying into blood relationship results in diseases and gotra system was invented just to keep the breed pure. And marriages within caste or inter caste happened all the time regardless of what Ved or our sages said. For example Shantanu marrying a low caste fish woman it was no big deal especially for kings or people from royalty. Well sages were not that modern at that time and they did what they thought best and today modern science still looks up to their research and their hard work when they need some solution

Heavy research is going on, on our upnishads and veds to find their secrets. Anyway, both modern scinece and our sages have said the same thing that chidlren of parents who are cousins can have impure blood or breed or genetic defect. Sages may have used the words impure blood and modern science call it Genetic defect. Both are same things. depends upon our understanding. 😆😆

isnt it dangerious when u want to have a child and u have the same bloodline that child can have big decisas or handicap. This is also practised by muslims and ive seen a lot couples with the same bloodline whose child are very sick or handicap... It is saver to marry someone outside your bloodline. Their are people who sees cousin as bhai or behen..and uncle and aunty as mom and dad figures...

Originally posted by: .Reshama.

isnt it dangerious when u want to have a child and u have the same bloodline that child can have big decisas or handicap. This is also practised by muslims and ive seen a lot couples with the same bloodline who are very sick or handicap... It is saver to marry someone outside you bloodline. Specially when u see ur cousin as your bhai or behen..

true and this is the reason why there are more genetic disorders in Muslims. here read this article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-514911/Tragedy-children-born-genetic-defects-parents-cousins.html

These ,marriages basically take place because people are ignorant people need to be educated why these marriages can destroy whole family's life when a child with genetic defect comes into our lives. In western countries marriage license have to be taken plus blood samples is taken before marriage to check if any one of the couple have any disease but I think one more step should be taken their blood samples should be matched if their progeny might have genetic disorder.

In India somehow it is difficult but is it possible to check it thru gotra, kul gotra, caste, surname???? Well, our sages made sure some sort of method is there to prevent genetic disorders thru same blood marriages or cousin marriages. More research should be conducted.

Yes you are right from the begining we tell infants that these are your brothers or sisters call them didi bhaiya and you know in Sanatan Dharm we do not have any word for cousin all are bhai behen 😆😆 it is with advent of English language that we have learnt to call them cousins otherwise before we learnt the word cousin we always referd to our cousins as mameri behen mamera bhai chacheri behen mausara bhai dadiya sasur dadiya saas nati poti etc etc 😆😆 How cute these terminology sounds I am sure in other parts of Bharat they also must have different terminologies. 😆

Originally posted by: rasyafan

true and this is the reason why there are more genetic disorders in Muslims. here read this article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-514911/Tragedy-children-born-genetic-defects-parents-cousins.html

These ,marriages basically take place because people are ignorant people need to be educated why these marriages can destroy whole family's life when a child with genetic defect comes into our lives. In western countries marriage license have to be taken plus blood samples is taken before marriage to check if any one of the couple have any disease but I think one more step should be taken their blood samples should be matched if their progeny might have genetic disorder.

In India somehow it is difficult but is it possible to check it thru gotra, kul gotra, caste, surname???? Well, our sages made sure some sort of method is there to prevent genetic disorders thru same blood marriages or cousin marriages. More research should be conducted.

Yes you are right from the begining we tell infants that these are your brothers or sisters call them didi bhaiya and you know in Sanatan Dharm we do not have any word for cousin all are bhai behen 😆😆 it is with advent of English language that we have learnt to call them cousins otherwise before we learnt the word cousin we always referd to our cousins as mameri behen mamera bhai chacheri behen mausara bhai dadiya sasur dadiya saas nati poti etc etc 😆😆 How cute these terminology sounds I am sure in other parts of Bharat they also must have different terminologies. 😆

am really shocked that this is also practised in some parts of india

am really shocked that this is also practiced in some parts of india

In south India basically in north it is strictly banned I am sure you must have heard of Khap who kill anybody if they marry within gotra or inter caste in the name of honour killing in fact in our villages all the chidlren girls or boys are considered siblings therefore marriage within a village is also not aloud.

Originally posted by: .Reshama.

am really shocked that this is also practised in some parts of india

Originally posted by: Raadhni

Though not from India but of Indian descend I would like to write something here about the lines in red.

From the infant age my parents taught me to call mamas' / attas' sons 'bhava' and daughters' bhabhi, kaka/chacha's/ mausis' sons annhas and daughters akkas. They are all my cousins and we don't call them didi or bhaiya. My mum married her mama's son and this is prevalent in most South Indian houses in Fiji.

Yes in south India such marriages are prevalent among hindus too and we are discussing if these can be the cause of genetic defects many studies and research are going on in this regard

Nice terminologies you have 😃

I took an immunology course in my last year at the University and gained some detailed knowledge about why is it that the cousin marriages and/or sibling marriages produce weaker offspring or have defects, pregnancy losses and in some cases even cause stillbirths (mom giving birth to a dead baby).