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Is devi dasi the same as temple prostitutes devidasi?

Submitted by Olga Pavlova on Wed, 2015-10-07 16:28

I read where Prabhupada said unmarried women were like prostitutes, and as Devidasi are known as temple prostitutes in India, so did he expect unmarried Iskcon women to do that?

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Devadasis

Submitted by Jan@VEDA on Sat, 2015-10-10 15:42.

Devadasis were dancers-servants of the Deity, e.g. in Jagannath mandir in Puri, mentioned also in Caitanya caritamrta. The prostitution thing in some temples was a degradation, later abolished by the British.
Unmarried women should either marry or become perfect renunciates like Gangamata Gosvamini.

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ys Jan