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¹ The property of women forms too complicated a subject to be discussed here but it may be said in general that Manu represents an advance on the older denial of the Sūtras that women, and in particular widows, could inherit. Baudhāyana and Āpastamba exclude widows from the husband’s inheritance (e.g. Āpast., ii, 14).