Vish Kanya, The Poisonous Girl (Part I)

Vishkanya means poisonous girl or girls are often mentioned in Hindi myths and stories, especially about Chanakya, the famous advisor and minister of Chandrajit Maurya. His book “Arthashastra” is a famous scholarly book.

According to traditions, when a girl is to be made a “Vish Kanya”, she is started to be poisoned little by little from infancy, the amount of poison is also increased as she grows older, similarly when she is young, Vish Kanya or A poisonous girl is created, then sent to the enemies to kill them by killing them as soon as they have sex with the poisonous girl.

First of all, this idea is absurd, if any woman reaches the solitude of a man, she can kill him in any way she wants, even if the woman is not poisoned, the end is the same. As it happens, she will either be caught or manage to escape, meaning why linger so long just to kill.

Making the girl poisonous by exposing her to poison is actually the assumption of Vish Kanya or the poisonous girl because it also has a romantic concept of girl and woman and solitude or sexual act, which is also a man’s favorite occupation, and by associating negative actions with women, he feels masculine. Superiority is also satisfying because men’s views of women are always negative.

On the one hand, if he is forced to call her “mother”, on the other hand, he considers her to be an instrument of the devil, a seducer of men and the one who drives him out of heaven. Therefore, in the world of men, this is happily accepted, in which woman’s An aspect of evil is added and then the basic concept of renunciation in Hindi scriptures is aversion to the world and aversion to women.

Rishi Mani and Jogi, Sadhus run away even from her shadow and call women as pot of sins, so whoever has presented this concept of Vish-Kanya, the element of misogyny in his mind will be more.

Even among our Muslims, a woman is considered a great threat to faith, her image, her clothes, even her voice is a great threat to “faith”. When the government came, faith was considered to be the biggest threat to women.

One of our friends had great devotion to a Pir Sahib and we used to discuss this topic often, one day he forcibly took us with him to show the virtues of Pir Sahib. They were about to come from home, we also stood to see the sight of their arrival.

Finally Pir Saheb came out of the house, he had to pass through a street between the house and the mosque.

We asked Murid Khas about this strict “veiling” and he said that it was so that no woman or girl could be seen.

We said that women will be in their own houses. On this Mureed Khas said, they are mahram, they wear hijab with non-mahram women. Well, it means that it is a man’s prerogative to create any kind of negative perception from a woman, that’s why Vish Kanya has been given a lot of fame in stories, dramas and histories, although it is not possible to do so in practice, it is possible to make Vish Kanya. No. To understand this, we need to know about “poison” first.

There are many types of poisons. Animal venom is from snakes, scorpions, sheep, bees and other animals. Botanical poisons that are present in some plants and chemical poisons that are produced. Animal poison is actually a complex form of “protein” and it is deposited by nature as a defense weapon to these animals, when they find themselves in extreme danger, they use this weapon in a state of extreme compulsion.

Now, the “protein” of cold-blooded animals is directly injected into warm-blooded animals, it causes their blood to clot, resulting in cardiac arrest and death, although the same animal protein, i.e., animal poison, if ingested through the mouth. To be fed and whoever is fed, if there is no previous injury in his stomach or bowels, the poison will not do anything, but will only benefit because it is protein. In this regard, the most important thing is the health of the digestive system.

If any poison passes through the human digestive system, then it is no longer a “poison”, meaning that there can be two cases, the first is that the poison will overcome the human digestive system or the digestive system will overcome the poison. Will turn it into a boat.

(to be continued)