Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.367

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it not.' With these words, O timid one, did Çvetaketu, the son of Uddālaka, set up by force the barrier of the moral law . . . At the time of the Ritu,¹ O king's daughter, thou so faithful to thy husband, the wife shall not go afield from her husband ; these are the words of the law recognized by the law-learned. At all other times the woman has free independence (svātantryam strī kilārhati) for herself. It is such a law that good men call the old one." ²