The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c9.37
The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c9.37
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c9.37
¹ That women, either alone or along with their own people, retire into the solitude of the forest is very often mentioned in the Jâtakas, e.g., III. 382; IV. 23, 484. According to the law books, the dvija is free when he renounces worldly life to leave his wife to the care of his sons or to take her with him into the forest. Manu VI. 3. Cf. Apastamba II. 9, 22, 8-9; Viṣṇu LXXXXIV. 3; Yâjñavalkya III. 45.
Linked texts (5)
- Jātaka — Pāli
- Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit
- Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit
- Yājñavalkyasmṛti — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit
- Āpastambadharmasūtra — Āpastamba, Sanskrit