Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s10.t12: Remarriage of a Widower

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s10.t12

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Remarriage of a Widower

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It may, however, happen that a woman may be forsaken, or allowed to go away by her husband or may go away of her own accord. Under such circumstances, the man was free to marry another woman. Thus we are told in the commentary on the *Uttarādhyayana* that a merchant's wife was fond of decorating her body so much that she did not look after the household servants and property and as a result all the servants left her. In course of time, when the merchant returned from his journey, not seeing any servant in the house, he got angry with his wife, turned her out of the house, and married another woman.⁶⁴

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⁶⁴ 4, p 97

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Uttarādhyayanaśiṣyahitā — Śāntisūri, Sanskrit