 ... existence after the death of their husbands ; and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide. These restraints on female inheritance encourage, in a great degree, polygamy,...  Missionary Register - Page 1871823Full view - About this book
 | 1826 - 630 pages
...regardless of existence after the death of their husbands ; and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...restraint on the indulgence of their inclinations in respect to the number they many. Some of them, especially Brahmins of higher birth, marry ten, twenty,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 624 pages
...regardless of existence after the death of their husbands ; and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...restraint on the indulgence of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmins of higher birth, marry ten, twenty,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 624 pages
...regardless of existence after the death of their husbands ; and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...restraint on the indulgence of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmins of higher birth, marry ten, twenty,... | |
 | Rammohun Roy (Raja) - 1832 - 306 pages
...regardless of existence after the death of their husbands : and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...restraint on the indulgence of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmuns of higher birth, marry ten, twenty,... | |
 | Lant Carpenter - 1833 - 152 pages
...regardless of existence after the 94 death of their husbands : and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...source of the greatest misery in native families". He then speaks of " Brahmuns of higher birth" as marrying " ten, twenty, or thirty women"; and manifests... | |
 | Mary Carpenter - 1866 - 320 pages
...death of their husbands ; and • ihis indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward hefcl out to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide....on female inheritance encourage, in a great degree, polagymy, a frequent source of the greatest misery in native families." " His labours for his country,"... | |
 | Mary Carpenter - 1875 - 206 pages
...regardless of existence after the death of their husbands ; and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...source of the greatest misery in native families." " His labours for his country," continues Dr. CAHo PENTER, " had, however, a mueh wider scope. He took... | |
 | Rammohun Roy (Raja) - 1885 - 536 pages
...of their existence after the death of their husbands : and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...restraint on the indulgence of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmuns of higher birth, marry ten, twenty,... | |
 | Rammohun Roy (Raja) - 1906 - 1042 pages
...to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide. These restraints on female inheritance encourge, in a great degree, polygamy, a frequent source of...greatest misery in native families; a grand object of Hindus being to secure a provision for their male offspring, the law, which relieves them from the... | |
 | Rammohun Roy (Raja) - 1906 - 1024 pages
...to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide. These restraints on female inheritance encourge, in a great degree, polygamy, a frequent source of...greatest misery in native families; a grand object of Hindus being to secure a provision for their male offspring, the law, which relieves them from the... | |
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