Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.285

v1.c3.s21.285

¹⁰¹ ‘They own neither themselves nor an inheritance’ (nātmanaś caneśate na dāyasya), says the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, iv. 4, 2, 13. *Cf.* Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iv. 6, 4; Taittirīya Saṃhitā, vi. 5, 8, 2; Nirukta, iii. 4 *Cf.* for the Epic, Hopkins, *Journal of the American Oriental Society*, 13, 368. For compulsory obedience of the wife, *cf.* Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 4. 7. In the same Upaniṣad Yājñavalkya, on retiring from the ordinary life, divides his goods between his two wives.