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SHRINE OF THE GODDESS PARVATI.
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from seven to ten), and of plural marriages in the higher castes, or the details of wedding ceremonies, which however are full of religious significance.
The wives of the poorer people have considerable freedom; but among the richer classes a wife is the servant
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SHRINE OF THE GODDESS PARVATI, WIFE OF SIVA (EARLIER FORM OF KALI, DURGA, ETC.), IN A TEMPLE AT POONAH.
not only of her husband but of all the older women of his family. She must always be visited in the presence of her brothers-in-law, and must not speak to her husband in the daytime, nor even take her meals with him. Too
