A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c6.81

c6.81

² Manu, ix. 18., translated by Sir W. Jones. “Women have no business with the texts of the Veda, thus is the law fully settled; having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no knowledge of expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself; and this is a fixed rule.”