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" For women no (sacramental) rite (is performed) with sacred texts, thus the law is settled; women (who are) destitute of strength and destitute of (the knowledge of) Vedic texts, (are as impure as) falsehood (itself), that is a fixed rule. "
Jurisculture. 2,: India - Page 90
by Gray L. Dorsey - 108 pages
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The History of British India, Volume 1

James Mill - 1817 - 688 pages
...they well know the disposition with which the lord of creation formed them : Menu allotted to such women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornament, impure appetites, wrath, weak flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct." f " Be there no place, be...
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A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos ..., Volume 1

William Ward - 1818 - 738 pages
...in this world ever so well) they soan become alienated from their husbands. Manoo allotted to such women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornament, impure appetites, wrath, weak flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. Day and night must women be...
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A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos: Including a ...

William Ward - 1818 - 738 pages
...in this world ever so well) they soon hecome alienated from their husbands. Munoo allotted to such women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornament, impure appetites, wrath, weak flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. Day and night must women be...
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History, Literature and Religion of the Hindoos, Volume 3

William Ward - 1820 - 446 pages
...in this world ever BO well) they soon become alienated from their husbands. Munoo allotted to such women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornament, impure appetites, wrath, weak flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. Day and night must women be...
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Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, The Ordinances of Menu, According to the Gloss ...

Manu (Lawgiver) - 1825 - 488 pages
...know the 4 disposition, with which the lord of creation formed ' them : 17. ' MENU allotted to such women a love of their * bed, of their seat, and of ornament, impure appe* tites, wrath, weak flexibility, desire of mischief, ' and bad conduct. 18. ' Women have no business...
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Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India ..., Volume 9; Volume 26

1828 - 848 pages
...dispositions with which women were endowed by the lord of creation are represented to be the following : — a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornament; impure appetites, wrath, weak flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct." " Women have no business,"...
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Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical ..., Volume 2

James William Massie - 1840 - 500 pages
...good qualities, with impurity, they affirm, are the innate faults of womankind. And their deity has allotted to women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornaments, impure appetites, wrath, flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. Though her husband...
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The Journal of Civilization: Established for the Promotion of Civilization ...

1851 - 428 pages
...good qualities, with impurity, they affirm, are the innate faults of womankind. And their duty has allotted to women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornaments, impure appetites, wrath, inflexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. Though her...
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Memoirs of British Female Missionaries: With a Survey of the Condition of ...

Thomas Timpson - 1841 - 368 pages
...good qualities, with impurity, they affirm, are the innate faults of womankind. And their duty has allotted to women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornaments* impure appetites, wrath, flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. Though her husband...
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Digest of Hindu Law on Contracts and Successions

Jagannātha Tarkapañchānana - 1865 - 658 pages
...they should not be contemned merely for their mutable temper.XXIV. MENU : — MENU allotted to such women a love of their bed, of their seat, and of ornament, impure appetites, wrath, weak flexiblity, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. MBNTT allotted to women, at...
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