 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1796 - 442 pages
...conduct. 18. ' Women have no bufinefs with the texts * of the Veda ; thus is the law fully fettled : * having therefore no evidence of law, and no ' knowledge of expiatory texts, fintul women muft ' be as foul as falfehood itfelf ; and this is a fixed « rule. 19. ' To this effect,... | |
 | Rev. William Tennant - India - 1803 - 436 pages
...from their hufbands." — " Women have no bufmefs with the Veda ; thus is " the law fully fettled : having therefore no evidence " of law, and no knowledge of expiatory texts, fin" ful women muft be as foul as falfehood itfelf f." YET with all thefe bad qualities they are expected... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 672 pages
...conduct. 1 8. ' Women have no bufinefs with the ' texts of the Veda; thus is the law fully fettled: * having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no * knowledge of expiatory texts, finful women ' muft be as foul as falfehood itfe-lf ; and this is * a fixed rule. , 19. ' To this effect... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 688 pages
...entirely excluded from the sacred books ; " Women have no business with the texts of the Veda ; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence...sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself. To this effect many texts, which may show their true disposition, are chanted in the Vedas." f Their... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 606 pages
...the law fully settled ; having therefore no knowledge of expiating texts, sinful women (meaning all women) must be as foul as falsehood itself; and this is a fixed rule."— Here the legislator lirst bi .ids the sex fast in the chains of ignorance, and then reproaches and... | |
 | 1822 - 872 pages
...the law fully settled : having therefore no knowledge of expiating texts, sinful women (meaning all women) must be as foul as falsehood itself; and this is a fixed rule.' — Here the legislator first binds them fast in the chaina of ignorance, and then reproaches and punishes... | |
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Hindu law - 1825 - 490 pages
...desire of mischief, * and bad conduct. 18. ' Women have no business with the texts of the ' Veda; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, ' no...foul as falsehood ' itself; and this is a fixed rule. 19. ' To this effect many texts, which may show 2 P .* their CHAP. ' their true disposition, are chanted... | |
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - Brahmans - 1825 - 488 pages
...desire of mischief, ' and bad conduct. 18. ' Women have no business with the texts of the * Veda ; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, ' no...foul as falsehood * itself; and this is a fixed rule. 19. ' To this effect many texts, which may show CHAP. ' their true disposition, are chanted in the... | |
 | Asia - 1826 - 842 pages
...observant guardians, they are not secure." " Women have no business with the texts of the Veda ; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself; and this is a fixed rule." A society,... | |
 | Asia - 1828 - 848 pages
...mischief, and bad conduct." " Women have no business," says the Code, " with the texts of the Veda ; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence...foul as falsehood itself: and this is a fixed rule ! " A woman is, however, permitted to derive a sort of reflected merit from her husband, for she is... | |
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Women have no business with the texts of the Veda; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no knowledge of expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself ; and this is a fixed rule. 
