Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s10.t14.2
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s10.t14.2
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c12.s10.t14.2
⁷⁰ According to *Manu* (IX 59f) the person who was appointed under *niyoga* to beget a son for the widow was to approach her anointed with clarified butter, silently to give her one son only, and by no means a second, and after the purpose of *niyoga* is served the man and the woman had to behave towards each other like a father and a daughter-in-law, also *Gautama* XVIII 4ff, Also see Altekar, *op. cit.*, pp 168-76.
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- Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit
- Gautamadharmasūtra — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit