The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c7.s3.17

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¹ **राजगहे तु एका सेठिधीता सोलसवस्सुद्देसिका अभिरूपा अहॉसि दस्सनाय । तस्मि च वये थिता नारियो पुरुसझासाय होंति पुरिसलोला ।** *Commentary on Dhammapāda*, 102. A passage in *Sam. Ni.*, 37, 3, 1 points out that one of the evils to which women are subject is the necessity to go to the homes of their husbands', when they are young (*dahara*). The term *dahara*, however, does not refer to childhood, because *Vimānavatthu*, 31, 5, refers to a *dahara* wife as being pure and chaste as well.