Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.393

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⁴ *Cf.* *Arthaśāstra*, I, 20, where Kautilya cites some historical instances of the dangerous women queens murdering their husbands, presumably, through some intrigue: "He shall keep away," says he, "his wives from the society of ascetics with shaved head or braided hair, of buffoons and of outside prostitutes. Nor shall women of high birth have occasion to see his wives, except appointed midwives."