Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c10.30

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PAGE *a.* Her share in important things . . . . 464 *b.* Women's rule in the state . . . . 465 *c.* The wife goes, too, to the fight, the hunt, etc. . 466 *d.* Woman and the festival : amusements and diversions of the women . . . . . . 467 *e.* Women's journeyings . . . . . 470 *f.* The harem or polygamy :—
(i) Polygamy is right for the man, wrong for the woman 471
(ii) Duties of the man with many wives (the partial moon) . . . . . . 471
(iii) The passed-over wife of the polygamist (Kauçalyā, Devayānī and her son) . . . . 473
(iv) Enmity between wives . . . . 474
(v) The sorrow of the wife when another is taken . 476
(vi) Harem life in town and camp . . . 478 *g.* The watch over women, and how but one in the world has been kept from evil by another man . . 480 *h.* The treatment of woman :—
(i) She must be lovingly cherished and cared for by the man . . . . . . 486
(ii) The husband must not let himself be kept by the wife 487
(iii) The dreadfulness of woman-slaying . . 487
(iv) The woman must not be beaten, handled badly, nor forced . . . . . . 489
(v) On lying to women and deceiving them . . 490
(vi) Various rules for behaviour towards women . 492
(vii) The woman in sulks . . . . 494