Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.675

c7.675

of the town and a wife who is of a choleric temper, unamiable and eats before her husband should be expelled from the house without delay. According to M. 9, 83 if a wife who has been superseded by another wife leaves her husband's house in anger, she should be confined or expelled from the house in the presence of the family, and in the opinion of Y. 1, 72 every serious crime in general should be punished with repudiation (tyāga) though however repudiation for a crime less heinous than adultery belongs to the list of pracices forbidden in this age of sins.