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conduct, rebellious, diseased, mischievous, or wasteful, may at any time be superseded (by another wife).
81. A barren wife may be superseded in the eighth year, she whose children (all) die in the tenth, she who bears only daughters in the eleventh, but she who is quarrelsome without delay.
82. But a sick wife who is kind (to her husband) and virtuous in her conduct, may be superseded (only) with her own consent and must never be disgraced.
83. A wife who, being superseded, in anger departs from (her husband's) house, must either be instantly confined or cast off in the presence of the family.
84. But she who, though having been forbidden, drinks spirituous liquor even at festivals, or goes to public spectacles or assemblies, shall be fined six krishnalas.
LAWS OF MANU.
IX, 81.
85. If twice-born men wed women of their own and of other (lower castes), the seniority, honour, and habitation of those (wives) must be (settled) according to the order of the castes (varna).
86. Among all (twice-born men) the wife of equal caste alone, not a wife of a different caste by any means, shall personally attend her husband and assist him in his daily sacred rites.
87. But he who foolishly causes that (duty) to be
'mischievous,' i.e.' who beats or ill-treats her children, servants, &c.' (Medh., Nâr., Kull.).
83. 'Of the family,' i. e. ' of her own and the husband's family' (Medh.), or of her own family' (Kull., Nâr.).
86. Vi. XXVI, 1; Yâgn. I, 88. 'Personally attend,' i. e. ' prepare and bring his food, &c.' (Medh., Kull., Râgh.).
87. Vi. XXVI, 2. Instead of 'by the ancients' (Kull., Râgh.,
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