History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c54.1809

v3.c54.1809

Wife (see 'husband', 'marriage', '*pativratā*'): cannot desert even a *patita* husband, 620-621; conduct proper for wife, whose husband has gone abroad, 565-566; co-operates with husband in sacrifices, 429, 556; could not lodge a complaint against husband and *vice versa*, 574; could not perform sacrifices or vratas independently of husband, 559; does in sacrifices only those acts which she is expressly authorized to do, 1000n; duties of 562-565; eldest wife to co-operate in religious matters with husband or wife of same caste, 684; eulogy of, 428-429, 575; goal of the life of woman was declared to be to marry and procreate sons, 561; foremost duty to obey husband and honour him as god, 561-562; grounds on which in modern times wife can refuse to reside with husband, 570; is girt up with a cord in śrauta rites to make her fit for participation, 1040n; is half of a man, 428, 584; is the home, according to Ṛgveda, 428; lenient and harsh punishments for adultery of, 575; man not complete without wife, 428; mutual rights and duties of husband and wife, 556-582; no ownership of husband in, 508; no separation between husband and, 429; not liable for husband's debts, 573; part of, in śrauta sacrifices became less and less, 1000n; played a very subordinate part in sacrifices, 367-368; property of, free from control of husband, 573; punishment of, for adultery, 571-572; rewards promised to chaste wife, 566-567; rights of residence in husband's house and maintenance, 568; rules for precedence among several wives, 559-560; śūdra wife not to be associated with, in religious rites by *dvijāti* husband, 559; was cremated with the vedic fires and sacrificial utensils of husband if she died before husband, 558; was to learn vedic mantras required in sacrifices from her father or husband, 1041n; was to be guarded from lapse by devotion to her and not by beating her, 569; was to look into the clarified butter to be offered in sacrifices and to repeat a mantra, 1042; wealth acquired by, belongs to husband according to Manu, 507; what wife was to do when husband went abroad for many years, 612-613; wife who drinks liquor may be abandoned, 797.