Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c14.70

c14.70

Women Ascetics. We are also told: "The Brāhmans do not admit their wives to their philosophy: if the wives are wanton, they might divulge mysteries to the profane; if they are good, they might leave their husbands, since no one who has learnt to look with contempt upon pleasure and pain, upon life and death, will care to be under another's control."