The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c16.37

c16.37

The historian is, however, compelled to observe that in a large number of cases this rule about the chivalrous treatment of women was disregarded by Hindu commanders and soldiers long before the advent of Islamic armies. When the Maukhari king Grahavarman was defeated and killed in war in 605 A. D., his wife Rājyaśrī was put in prison with heavy fetters on her feet. Medieval inscriptions often refer to several cases of the ill-treatment of women seized in war. A Chola king of the 11th century had taken captive the mother of his Ceylonese contemporary;