| France, Bryant Barrett - 2004 - 558 pàgines
...preferred (8) : but she who, after ier husband's death, contracts a second marriage, brings disgrace upon herself here below, and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord. Nor is a eecond husband, in any part of the code, allowed to a virtuous woman (9). A Sudra woman only... | |
| 1828 - 864 pàgines
...incomparable rules of virtue which have been followed by such women as were devoted to one only husband. licit a widow, who, from a wish to bear children, slights...herself here below, and shall be excluded from the M'iii of her lord. We here perceive no traces of the Sati rite, to which not the most distant allusion... | |
| G.C. Haughton - 412 pàgines
...she devote herself to pious ' austerity : iOJ. ' But a widow, who, from a wish to hear chil• dren, slights her deceased husband by marrying again, •...brings disgrace on herself here below, and shall be ex' eluded from the seat of her lord. 162. 'Issue, begotten on a woman by any other • than her husband,... | |
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