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Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c9.s4.3

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c9.s4.3

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c9.s4.3

1. When her husband is alive, she goes to some other man out of desire,
2. husband having died, she rejects his brother (*devara*) and chooses to live with an outsider,
3. a woman in dire circumstances sells herself for food and cloths and then accepts her buyer, and
4. a courageous lady who is given to someone in accordance with the local customs and times.²⁵