| James Mill - 1817 - 688 pàgines
...state of dependance.* Who are meant by their protectors is immediately explained : " Their fathers protect them in childhood ; their husbands protect...youth, their sons protect them in age : a woman," it is added, " is never fit for independence. Let husbands consider this as the supreme law, ordained... | |
| Manu (Lawgiver) - 1825 - 490 pàgines
...recreations, though rather addicted to ' them, they may be left at their own disposal. 3. * Their fathers protect them in childhood; ' their husbands protect...sons ' protect them in age : a woman is never fit for in' dependence. 4. * Reprehensible is the father, who gives not his ' daughter in marriage at the proper... | |
| Manu (Lawgiver) - 1825 - 488 pàgines
...recreations, though rather addicted to 4 them, they may be left at their own disposal. 3. ' Their fathers protect them in childhood; ' their husbands protect...sons ' protect them in age : a woman is never fit for in' dependence. 4. ' Reprehensible is the father, who gives not his ' daughter in marriage at the proper... | |
| 1825 - 598 pàgines
...general declarations of her unfituess for that character. Menu it is true says of women "Their fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands protect...in youth, their sons protect them in age. A woman ia never fit for independence :" but what does this prove in respect to their civil rights. Nareda... | |
| 1826 - 842 pàgines
...created," says the Sastra ; " day and night must women be held in a state of dependence." " Their fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands protect...them in age ; a woman is never fit for independence." Again : " Let husbands, how weak soever, diligently keep their wives under lawful restrictions. No... | |
| Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange - 1830 - 464 pàgines
...protectors in a state of dependance. Their fa*' thers protect them in childhood ; their husbands pro" tect them in youth ; their sons protect them in age. A " woman is never fit for independance."C) And a preceding text, in which the same condition is inculcated, establishes her dependance,... | |
| Vācaspatimiśra - 1863 - 542 pàgines
...WOMEN AND OTHER MATTERS. Women YAQNYAVALKYA says, " women's fathers protect bekeptiniub- them in their childhood ; their husbands protect them in youth; their sons protect them in age." In default of sons, their relatives should protect them ; for they are " never fit for independence."... | |
| Jagannātha Tarkapañchānana - 1865 - 658 pàgines
...those who are meant by the term " protectors," or husbands and the rest. V. MENU : — Their fathers protect them in childhood ; their husbands protect...them in age ; a woman is never fit for independence. Let her father guard a woman, before her nuptials ; afterwards let her husband guard her ; and, on... | |
| Shama Churun Sircar - 1867 - 1246 pàgines
...fact, females, according to our law, are kept in a continual state of tutelage. — " Their fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands protect...in age : a woman is never fit for independence"— (MAN c). " When the husband is deceased, his kin are the guardians of his childless widow. In disposal... | |
| Louis Arthur Goodeve - 1870 - 982 pàgines
...additional reason why she should be handed over to her parents. Of a woman it is said : — " Their fathers protect them in childhood ; their husbands protect...them in age ; a woman is never fit for independence." — Menu, Ch. y, s. 148. Under Act XL of 1858, the girl is a minor until the age of eighteen. See the... | |
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