The Law Code of Devala 3.6: Kṛtyakalpataru · Caturvargacintāmaṇi · Dānamayūkha +2
Devalasmṛti (fragments) 3.6
- Language
- Sanskrit
3.6
tisraḥ kanyā vidhivad dattvā yathānyāyaṃ pālayitvā niveśya ca | na pitā narakaṃ yāti nārī vā strīprasūtinī
How should their bathing, how their cleansing, how their penance be? / What conduct should they adopt? Tell us that in full detail.”
A father who duly gives three daughters in marriage, having brought them up and settled them properly, does not go to hell, nor does a woman who has borne only daughters.
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Linked texts (5)
- Kṛtyakalpataru — Lakṣmīdhara Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Caturvargacintāmaṇi — Hemādri, Sanskrit
- Gṛhastharatnākara — Caṇḍeśvara, Sanskrit
- Dānamayūkha — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita 1600, Sanskrit
- Dānacandrikā (Divākarabhaṭṭa) — Divākarabhaṭṭa 1658, Sanskrit