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duty which she owes to her lord, 7, perty, 25, 326 ; a w., though sold 27; duties of husband and w., a or repudiated, cannot re-marry, title of the law, 7, 38; 25, \xx, 254, 25, 335, 335 n.; repudiation and 327-45, 327 n.; abandoning one's supersession of w., 25, 335, 341 sq., W., a crime in the fourth degree, 7, 344; sale of w., 25, 335, 442; 135; the dowry of a w. is called position of children according to
white property,' 7, 190; a husband seniority and caste of ws., 25, 350 is lord over his ws., 7, 215; the w. sq. and 1., 356-8, 365 n., 371, takes her meal when the husband 371 n.; all ws. of one husband are has eaten, 7, 216, 216 n.; husband mothers through the son of one w., and w. eat after the guests and the 25, 365; should not make a hoard rest of the household have eaten, from the property of their families 7, 216 sq. ; hating his w., one of or their husbands, 25, 372, 372 n.; the seven cruelties, 8, 167, 167 n., Vaidehakas serve in the harem, 25, 182 ; householder shall be always 413, 413 n.; sin of subsisting on devoted to his own w., 8, 216, 358; w.'s earnings or property, 25, 443, the old man who marries a young 443 n.; atoneinent for killing his W., 10 (ii), 19; ws. consort with w., 25, 448, 448 n.; two classes of other men, 12, 76; there are more ws. in Vedic times, 32, 275 sq.; WS., ws, to one man, but only one hus- sons, slaves, are dependent, 33, 51; band to one woman, 12, 148 sq., one who has forsaken his w. cannot 148 1.; husband and w., the en- be a witness, 33, 87; miserable conjoyer and the one to be enjoyed, dition of a w. who has been super12, 238; the ws. of slain soldiers seded by another, 33, 92, 92 n.; shall be provided for, 14, 98; king's gift of a w., an invalid gift, 33, 128, duty towards the mother and ws. of 342; slavery analogous to the conhis predecessor, 14, 100; ws. who dition of a w., 33, 136 n., 138; should be abandoned, 14, 111 sq., compared with fields, 33, 169, 176 234; 25, 342; should never be for- sq., lawsuits between husband and saken, 14, 133; 25, 321; giving a w. forbidden, 33, 183, 1831., 234; thousand oxen equals the gift of husband though feeble must always a maiden, 14, 137; to eat in the be worshipped by his ws., 33, 217; company of one's w. a custom of the debts contracted by ws., 33, 329; south, 14, 146; ws. to be jealously property of the w. belongs to one watched, for the son belongs to the person even in an undivided family, begetter, 14, 229; must be guarded 33, 382; a brother living with a more carefully than wealth, 14, deceased brother's w., 33, 389; 233; ws., sons, daughters, slaves, should receive presents from her male and female, given away as husband and from relations, 33, presents, 21, 243 ; an excellent w. 391; a w. conciliates her husband may be taken even from a base with what belongs to him, 35, 302; family, 25, 73; qualifications re- the queen, one of the king's quired for w., 25, 75-8; ws. of jewels, 41, 60; a discarded w. is one several castes, 25, 77, 342 sq.; who has no son, 41, 65; 46, 59 n., quarrels with a w. to be avoided, 65; many ws. are a form of pros25, 157; one's w. to be considered perity, 44, 313; Pâlâgalî, the king's as one's own body, 25, 158; must fourth w., of low caste, 44, 313 n.; obcy the husband, 25, 195 sq.; to how ws. treat their (hen-pecked) be preserved at the expense of husbands like slaves, 45, 275-8. wealth, but life to be preserved at See also Adultery, Marriage, and the expense of w. and wealth, 25, Woman. 251; the king in his harem, 25, (c) IN ZOROASTRIANISM. 251 sq.; fine for defaming one's Worship to be performed by the W., 25, 302; may be beaten, 25, w.as well as by the husband, 5, 351; 306; husband living on w.'s adul- the earth distressed by ws. who are tery, 25, 317; can have no pro- disrespectful to their husbands, 5,
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