History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c28.s2.50
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c28.s2.50
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v2.c28.s2.50
Not only was the husband bound to maintain the wife, but he was called upon to cohabit with the wife and was supposed to incur the sin of embryo-murder if he refused without good cause to do so. On the other hand the husband had a right of *consortium* i. e. the wife was not to refuse herself to the husband and if she did so her delinquency was to be proclaimed in the village and she was to be driven from the house¹³²⁷.