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Manava Dharmashastra 5.148

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 5.148

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Sanskrit

5.148

bālye pitur vaśe tiṣṭhet pāṇigrāhasya yauvane
putrāṇāṃ bhartari prete na bhajet strī svatantratām //

In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent.

Georg Bühler 1886, The Laws of Manu

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