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" The Ninth Book relates to women, to families, and to the law of castes. It states that women must be kept in a state of dependence. " Their fathers protect them in childhood ; their husbands protect them in youth ; their sons protect them in age. A woman... "
Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology - Page 110
by James Freeman Clarke - 1871
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The History of British India, Volume 1

James Mill - 1817 - 700 pages
...protectors in a state of dependance.* Who are meant by their protectors is immediately explained : " Their fathers protect them in childhood ; their husbands...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...
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Manu (Lawgiver) - 1825 - 490 pages
...innocent recreations, though rather addicted to ' them, they may be left at their own disposal. 3. * Their fathers protect them in childhood; ' their husbands...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...
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Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss ...

Manu (Lawgiver) - 1825 - 488 pages
...innocent recreations, though rather addicted to 4 them, they may be left at their own disposal. 3. ' Their fathers protect them in childhood; ' their husbands...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...
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The Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review, and Register, Part 76, Volume 3

1825 - 598 pages
...indulged in general declarations of her unfituess for that character. Menu it is true says of women "Their fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands...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...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and ..., Volume 21

1826 - 842 pages
...of women. " To be mothers were women created," says the Sastra ; " day and night must women be held in a state of dependence." " Their fathers 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...
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Hindu Law: Principally with Reference to Such Portions of it as ..., Volume 1

Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange - 1830 - 464 pages
...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,...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

1845 - 732 pages
...duties of relatives and classes. Concerning women, Menu decrees, that they be held by their protectors in a state of dependence. " Their fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands in youth, their sons in age; a woman is never fit for independence." Learned women, in India, are usually...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

1845 - 688 pages
...duties of relatives and classes. Concerning women, Menu decrees, that they be held by their protectors in a state of dependence. "Their fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands m youth, their sons in age; a woman is never fit for independence." Learned women, in India, are usually...
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Vivada Chintamani: A Succinct Commentary on the Hindoo Law Prevalent in Mithila

Vācaspatimiśra - 1863 - 542 pages
...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."...
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Digest of Hindu Law on Contracts and Successions

Jagannātha Tarkapañchānana - 1865 - 658 pages
...MENU specifies those who are meant by the term " protectors," or husbands and the rest. V. MENU : — Their fathers protect them in childhood ; their husbands...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...
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