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Mention two rules about gotra, particularly of women, according to Brahmanical practice after 1000 BCE.

Solution

The two rules are:

(i) After marriage women have to adopt her husbands gotra name and give up fathers gotra name.

(ii) Members of the same gotra could not marry.

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