Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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BAUDHAYANA.
II, 2, 3.
47. Those (women) who strive (to do what is) agreeable to their husbands will gain heaven.
48. But for a violation (of their duty towards the husband) a Krikkhra penance (must be performed).
49. (For violating it) with a Sadra (a woman) shall perform a lunar penance (kândrâyana);
50. (For violating it) against the order of the castes with a Vaisya and so forth, she shall perform a Krikkhra or an (Atikrikkhra) penance.
51. For male (offenders, i.e.) Brâhmanas and so forth, a year's chastity (is prescribed).
quite genuine; for the word 'tasmât,' with which it begins, is not required, because its sense is already expressed by the following "hi,' and because the Satra apparently contains half an Anushtubh Sloka, which the insertion of tasmât destroys. It is also easy to see how it came to be inserted. Every Yagurvedi who read the passage would be reminded of the analogous passage of the Taittirîya Samhita VI, 5, 8, 2, 'tasmât striyo nirindriyâ adâyâdîr api pâpât pumsah upastitaram,' which in K. has actually been inserted after our Sætra. In the Vedic Mantra 'tasmât' is required, and is certainly the genuine reading. Hence it seems to have been transferred into Baudhayana's text, possibly by the mistake of some scribe who, according to the habit of his kind, took a marginal reference to the beginning of the Vedic passage for a correction of the text. In my opinion it must be thrown out. The sense of the half verse remains exactly the same. It corresponds to Manu IX, 18. According to Govindasvâmin and others its object is to show that women are incapable of inheriting, and the word dâya,
portion,'must be taken in the sense of a share of the inheritance.' For a full discussion of this point, I refer to the Introductory Note on Book I, Chapter II, Sect. 14 of West and Bühler's Digest of H. L. C., third edition.
47. Vishnu XXV, 15, 17; Vasishtha XXI, 14. 48-50. Vasishtha XXI, 6-13.
51. Govinda points out that this rule refers to adultery with women of equal caste, and thinks that the word 'chastity'indicates that Krikkhra penances are to be performed; Vasishtha XXI, 16,17; Vishnu LIII, 2. But see Gautama XXII, 29.
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