[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s21.335 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.335 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.335 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s21.335](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.335) wasteful action; even the chief wife would often have had to be spared on one ground or another. The Rigveda already reveals a state of society in which the actual burning of the wife was avoided by a semblance of it in the funeral ritual of (cf. Macdonell, Sanskrit Literature, 126). The reward of a good wife was to go to the world of her husband (pati-loka) after death (cf. Av. xiv. 1, 64; xviii. 3, 1; Rv. x. 85, 43). A Vedic citation in the scholiast on Pāṇini, iii. 2, 8, Vārttika, 2, says that a Brahmin woman who drinks Surā, an intoxicating liquor, does not go to the world of her husband after death. - [Previous: v1.c3.s21.334](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.334) - [Next: v1.c3.s21.336](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.336) - [Up: v1.c3.s21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21) ## Linked texts (3) - [Aṣṭādhyāyī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.vyakarana.astadhyayi.3.2.8) — Pāṇini, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.85.43) — Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva.14.1.64) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.335](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.335) · Pramāṇa