Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.654

c7.654

² Kauṭilya (III, 2) however lays down that a man cannot take a second wife before eight years have passed after his first marriage and even that only if the first wife brings forth no live children or has no male issue or if she is barren. Violation of this rule is even punished by the government. But in the same chapter Kauṭ. says that a man may marry any number of women if he is in a position to make good provisions for all of them. Perhaps only concubines are meant here. Tr.