[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) › v3.c40.138 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.138 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c40.138 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c40.138](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.138) Manu IX. 80 and Yāj. I. 73 say that a wife who drinks liquor is to be abandoned (even if she be a śūdra woman married to a brāhmaṇa). The Mit. on Yāj. I. 73 quotes a text (of Parāśara X. 26 and Vas. Dh. S. 21. 15) that half of the body of him whose wife drinks \*surā\* is guilty of grave sin¹⁹⁰⁴ (on Yāj. III. 256 it is ascribed to Manu). Vas. Dh. S. (21. 11) says that a brāhmaṇa wife who drinks \*surā\* is not allowed by the gods to reach the world of her husband (after death) and that she wanders in this world as a leech in water or as an oyster.¹⁹⁰⁵ Yāj. III. 256 says the same and adds that such a wife becomes in her subsequent lives a bitch, a vulture or a pig in this world itself. - [Previous: v3.c40.137](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.137) - [Next: v3.c40.139](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.139) - [Up: v3.c40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40) ## Cites (4) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.80) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha.21.11) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.1.73) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Parāśarasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.parasara.10.26) — Parāśara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.138](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c40.138) · Pramāṇa