A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s7.88

v1.c8.s7.88

¹ We also read in the Brāhmaṇas such sentences as: “Verily, the sacrifice is right and truth, woman is something wrong” (Maitrāyaṇīya-Saṃhitā, I, 10, 11), “Nirṛti (*i.e.* Evil personified) is woman.” (Maitr. I, 10, 16), “Woman, the Śūdra, the dog, and the blackbird (the crow) are something wrong.” (Śat. 14, 1, 1, 31), etc. See *Lévi*, La doctrine du sacrifice dans les Brāhmaṇas, pp. 156 ff.; *Oldenberg*, Vorwissenschaftliche Wissenschaft, pp. 44 f.; and *Winternitz*, Die Frau in den indischen Religionen, I, pp. 4 f., 10 ff., 43.