Hinduism allows a woman to marry once in her lifetime,

 

• Hinduism allows a woman to marry once in her lifetime, whether she is a divorcee or a widow.
• According to Mahabharat Book 1 Sec 104, it is not lawful for a woman to have connection with another husband, even if the husband is dead.
• Hinduism does not have the concept of divorce, but rather promotes the idea of abandoning a wife. Baudhayana Dharmasutra, Praśna II, Adhyāya 2, Kaṇḍikā 4, Shlok 6 states that a man can abandon a barren wife in the tenth year, one who bears daughters only in the twelfth, one whose children all die in the fifteenth, but a quarrelsome wife should be abandoned without delay. When a woman is abandoned, the martial tie still remains so the woman cannot remarry.
• Hinduism considers widows as inauspicious and recommends not having any sort of dealings with a widow. Skanda Puran Book 4, Sec 1, Ch 4, Sh 50–51 states that a widow devoid of conjugal bliss and weal is the worst of all inauspicious things, and there would be no success in a venture if one sees a widow (at the outset). A sensible man should avoid such a woman bereft of all conjugal bliss and even her blessings, except in the case of his (widowed) mother.
• According to the Skanda Puran, a widow is not allowed to remarry.
• However, an exception is made for virgin widows (i.e., when the husband dies before the marriage was consummated), and Hinduism allows them to remarry. Baudhayana Dharmasutra, Prasna IV, Adhyaya 1 sh 16 states that if a damsel has been given away, or even after the nuptial sacrifices have been offered, the husband dies, she who has left her father's house and has returned may be again wedded according to the rule applicable to second weddings, provided the marriage had not been consummated. Vasistha Dharmasutra Ch XVII sh 74 also supports this view. If a damsel at the death of her husband had been merely wedded by (the recitation of) sacred texts and if the marriage had not been consummated, she may be married again.