History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.1197

v5.c75.1197

Women, aśauca for married w in the case of the death of parents or brother or in case they hear of it beyond ten days, within a year or after a year from death or of death of grandfather 278-279, in case of married w. if they were delivered or died at father's house then only the father has to observe āśauca for one or three days, but none otherwise, acc. to Viṣṇu 278; four classes of, that were to be altogether abandoned and not given even starving maintenance 105, guilty of offence liable to death sentence are to be punished with cutting off a limb 80, married w. had to observe āśauca for three days for death of parents or step-mother if ten days had not elapsed from death or for the remaining days out of ten 278, may perform prāṇāyāmas and give gifts as penances in secret 125, of dvija classes guilty of adultery with a śūdra could be purified by a penance if they do not give birth to a child of the intercourse 105, of all varṇas were allowed to drink pañcagavya as remover of sins 142, three acts specially condemned in women, viz, sexual intercourse with a man of lower varṇa, causing abortion, killing husband 105, rules about uncleanliness for women in monthly illness are older than Tai S 309, that have adopted heterodox views and practices, that are thieves of gold and the like, that attempt to kill husbands, that are unchaste, that drink liquor or attempt suicide should not be offered water on death and no āśauca should be observed for them 301; tonsure of entire head prescribed for all women at Prayāga by Raghunandana, though others did not agree 603; were regarded as unclean on child birth, the duration of impurity depending on the sex of the child 309