Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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BRIHASPATI.
XXIV, 4.
marriage in proper time (before she has reached maturity), a husband who has not connexion with his wife at the time favourable for procreation, and a son who does not support his mother : all such deserve contempt and shall be punished as ordained in law.
4. Employing (a woman) in the receipt and expenditure (of wealth), in the preparation of food, in the preservation of domestic utensils, in purification, and in the care of the (sacred household) fire, is declared to be the (best) way of guarding women.
5. Let not a woman reside in another man's house, separated from her father, husband, or sons; by (giving way to) malicious propensities, particularly, she is sure to lose her reputation.
6. Rising before (the others), paying reverence to the elders of the family, preparing food and condiments, and using a low seat and bed: thus have the duties of women been declared.
7. Drinking (spirituous liquor), rambling abroad, sleeping by day, and neglect of her daily duties, are faults disgracing a woman.
8. That wife is declared to be devoted to her husband who is afflicted when he is afflicted, pleased when he is happy, squalid and languid when he is absent, and who dies when he dies.
9. While her husband is absent, a woman must avold decorating herself, as well as dancing, singing,
4. Ratn. p. 416; Col. Dig. IV, 1, 31; Viram. p. 419. 5. Ratn. p. 427. 6. Ratn. p. 428; Col. Dig. IV, 2, 90. 7. Ratn. p. 431; Col. Dig. IV, 2, 100. 8. Ratn. p. 436; Col. Dig. IV, 2, 107. See II. 9. Ratn. p. 439; Col, Dig. IV, 2, 118.
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