The legendary Chinese traveller, Hieun Tsiang (602-664 CE), in his memoir ‘Record of Travels to the Western Regions’ apparently forgot to record on any ‘imaginary’ veil (ghoonghat/purdah) by Indian women in 7th century CE, as claimed by trads/tradcells & leftist historians. 💁♂️
Our trads & leftist friends may also accuse Hieun Tsiang of having gone blind for not observing veils on Indian women as they moved around freely in public places running their errands in early medieval India..
.. unlike their counterparts who began to be forced into tents almost at the same time far off in the deserts of Arabia.
Nevertheless, let the truth be told in the following manner, as recorded by Hieun Tsiang :-
“The men wind their garments round their middle then gather them under the armpits, and let them fall down across the body, hanging to the right....
.. The robes of the women fall down to the ground; they completely cover their shoulders. They wear a little knot of hair on their crowns, and let the rest of their hair fall loose.”
If Hieun Tsiang could easily notice little knot of hair on the crown of women and the long hair falling loose, then what the hell Ancient Indian women were covering using veils ??
And I m sure Hieun Tsiang was not an Arya Samaji on a mission to destroy Hinduism in 7th Century CE.
Source and Credit :-
1)THE INDIA THEY SAW (VOL-1) by SANDHYA JAIN
2)Lokesh Chandra, Preface, The Life of Hsuan-tsang By his disciples Hui-li and Yen-ts‘ung, complete Chinese text translated into English by Li Yung-his, Akshaya Prakashan, New Delhi, 2005 (original 1959).
1)THE INDIA THEY SAW (VOL-1) by SANDHYA JAIN
2)Lokesh Chandra, Preface, The Life of Hsuan-tsang By his disciples Hui-li and Yen-ts‘ung, complete Chinese text translated into English by Li Yung-his, Akshaya Prakashan, New Delhi, 2005 (original 1959).
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