[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v2.c32.31 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c32.31 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c32.31 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c32.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.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. - [Previous: v2.c32.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c32.30) - [Next: v2.c32.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c32.32) - [Up: v2.c32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c32) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c32.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v2.c32.31) · Pramāṇa