Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.22

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Husband: nature and definition, 125, 205; is answerable for the conduct and character of the wife, 135, 205; is her godhead (she is patidevatā), 206, 347, 423, 430; that of the woman friend at the same time her own, 221; his significance for woman, 346 note, 351, 410, 423, 429; may not desert the wife, 409; may not live on the wife, 487; has the right and duty to punish his unfaithful wife, 520. Cf. Henpecked husband