Definition: Polyandry is the name given to the cultural practice of the marriage of one woman to more than one man.
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In Tibet, polyandry was accepted. Brothers would marry one woman, and the children of the marriage would inherit the land. The term for polyandry where the husbands are brothers to each other is fraternal polyandry.
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The practice of polyandry in Tibet is perhaps the best-known and best-documented incidence of cultural polyandry. There is a reference to the abolition of polyandry in Lagash, a Sumerian city, in about 2300 B.C.E. The Hindu religious epic text, the Mahabharata, mentions a woman, Draupadi, who marries five brothers.
