History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c32.31

v2.c32.31

We saw above that brāhmaṇa widows were only allowed anvārohaṇa, but not *anumarana*. There were other restrictions enjoined by the smṛtis on all widows ‘wives who have a child of tender years, who are pregnant, who have not attained puberty and who are in their monthly course do not mount the funeral pyre of their husbands’¹⁴⁸²—from the Bṛhan-Nāradīya purāṇa. There is a similar verse of Bṛhaspati. The wife who was in her course was allowed to burn herself after she bathed on the fourth day.