Education in Ancient India c11.s2.19

c11.s2.19

² Stories are current in learned circles of how clever wives would bring milk to serve at the dining party when the order given was *dadhimānaya*; they could at once see the blunder committed by the husband and in order to save him from the reproach of ungrammatical speech, would pretend to understand the order, not as *dadhim ānaya* bring curds (which would have been incorrect as *dadhi* is not a word in masculine gender), but as *dadhi mā ānaya*, ‘do not bring curds’