Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.51

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the south for the man to eat with his wife. And Nārada enjoins that he shall quickly drive out of the house a woman that eats before her husband, as also the woman who is always doing evil to him, or being unfriendly to him (xii, 93). The reason of the prohibition will be found in J. J. Meyer, *Altind. Rechtsschr.*, 12; 369, note. Āpastamba, ii, 4, 9.11 says: The father of the family may stint himself and his in food, but not the slave that works for him.