Women’s College to Train Priests
Source: Star TV, December 10, 2000 KANPUR, INDIA: Mrs. Asha Rani Rai of Vidya Mandir Women’s College, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has started training girls as purohits, Hindu priests, based on the curriculum of University Grant Commission [UGC]’s Sanskrit course. Everyday for seven hours these would-be female pundits learn about Vedic rituals. In an interview to Star, Asha Rani Rai said…