WOMEN UNDER POLYGAMY
"Day and night women must be kept in dependence by the males of their families, and if they attach themselves to sensual enjoyments, they must be kept under control."
"Her father protects her in childhood, her husband protects her in youth, and her sons protect her in old age. A woman is never fit for independence."
"He who carefully guards his wife, preserves the purity of his offspring, virtuous conduct, his family, himself, and his means of acquiring merit."
"No man can completely guard women by force; but they can be guarded by the employment of the following expedients: Let the husband employ his wife in the collection and expenditure of his wealth, in keeping everything clean, in the fulfilment of religious duties, in the preparation of his food, and in looking after the household utensils."
"Drinking spirituous liquor, associating with wicked people, separation from husband, rambling abroad, sleeping at unseasonable hours, and dwelling in other men's houses, are the six causes of the ruin of women."
"When creating them Manu allotted to women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornament, impure desires, wrath, dishonesty, malice, and bad conduct."
The following laws relate to the separation of the married:—
"For one year let a husband bear with a wife who hates him, but after the lapse of a year let him deprive her of her property and cease to cohabit with her."
"She who shows disrespect to a husband, who is addicted to some evil passion, is a drunkard, or diseased, shall be deserted for three months and be deprived of her ornaments and furniture."
"But she who shows aversion towards a mad or outcast husband, a eunuch, one destitute of manly strength, or one afflicted with such disease as punish crimes, shall neither be cast off nor be deprived of her property."
In "The Institutes of Vishnu" there are a number
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