Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c12.s1.6

c12.s1.6

Exceptions are, however, allowed under each case, specially when witnesses are available or where an agreement made in the privacy of home concerns women who are in *purdah* (*strīṇāṁ anishkāsinīnām*), or the sick, or those of unsound mind, who can not execute the agreement out of house.