 | 1875 - 344 pages
...she must support the train of her hnsband's dress. In one of the sacred books it is laid down that, "by a girl or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced...own dwelling-place, according to her mere pleasure/' and a " husband must be revered as a god by a virtuous wife." " Husband ! " there is no such word in... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1876 - 152 pages
...support the train of her husband's dress. In one of the Hindoo sacred books, it is laid down that " by a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced...own dwelling-place, according to her mere pleasure ; " and " a husband must be revered as a god by a virtuous wife." In others of them the following abominable... | |
 | Ross C. Houghton - Women - 1877 - 508 pages
...knowledge of expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself, and this is a fixed rule." "By a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced...own dwellingplace, according to her mere pleasure." "No sacrifice is allowed to women apart from their husbands, no religious rite, no fasting: as far... | |
 | Ross C. Houghton - Women - 1877 - 504 pages
...expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself, and this is a fixed rule." "By .1 girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced...own dwellingplace, according to her mere pleasure." "No sacrifice is allowed to women apart from their husbands, no religious rite, no fasting: as far... | |
 | Shama Churun Sircar - Hindu law - 1878 - 1068 pages
..."a woman must never seek independence ;" and carrying the principle to the length of declaring, that '-by a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced...own dwelling-place, according to her mere pleasure." Failing relations of her husband, she is to reside with her own, enjoying their protection, and being... | |
 | Shama Churun Sircar - Hindu law - 1878 - 1064 pages
...guardians, if there be no relations of her husband within the degree of sapindas* — 13. 28, 29. MANU : — By a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman Authority. advanced in years, nothing must be done, even in her own dwelling place, according to her... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1879 - 288 pages
...temples. Her dependence upon her husband is perpetual ; and, on this point, the laws are full and minute. "By a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced...must be dependent on her father; in youth, on her husband; her lord being dead, or her sons, a woman must never seek independence." The deference which... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Poor - Comparative literature - 1880 - 492 pages
...strangely to the advocates of woman's suffrage. These are literal quotations : — 147. " By a girl, or a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing...own dwelling-place, according to her mere pleasure." 148.." In childhood a female must be dependent upon her father; in youth, on her husband ; her lord... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Poor - Literature, Ancient - 1880 - 500 pages
...strangely to the advocates of woman's suffrage. These are literal quotations : — 147. " By a girl, or a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing...own dwelling-place, according to her mere pleasure." 148. " In childhood a female must he dependent upon her father ; in youth, on her husband ; her lord... | |
 | Trailokyanath Mitra - Hindu law - 1881 - 518 pages
...earliest, almost pre-historic, times in a system of rules entirely different. We find Menu ordaining that " by a girl or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced...even in her own dwelling-place, according to her mere pleasure."4 " In They mint be always childhood must a female be dependent on her father ; dePend<;utin... | |
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