PROSPECTS OF POSITION OF WOMEN IN EARLY INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERECE TO VEDIC PERIOD

Hinduism is a complex religion and unlike many western religions. It is also a way of life. In Hinduism women play an important role in the tradition. Women are revealed in the sacred scriptures as presenting a duality of being benevolent and malevolent, exposing her with great contrasting powers. In times of prosperity she indeed is Lakshmi, who bestows prosperity in the homes of men, and in times of misfortune, she herself becomes the goddess of misfortune and brings about ruins.1 Because of these changing powers that a women possesses, it is rational that man should want to control this mysterious power. The females nature are like the soil where the male plants his seeds to grow into conjoined images.2And therefore the male controls the female, that nature is controlled by culture. Culture or society controls nature as it is motivated to change and evolve just as the man tries to control the women