Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.33

v2.c20.33

In the same way the standpoint of ownership was taken, where the wife offended in the case of the wife’s adultery. The law literature deals but little with this ; is it, indeed, not a public matter, but one above all for the husband’s decision. But in this also his powers are limited partly through prescriptions of the law, partly through the prevailing moral attitude.