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THE

LAWS OF MENU,

SON OF BRAHMÁ,

(CONTINUED.)

CHAPTER THE NINTH.

On Judicature; on Law, Private and Criminal; and on the Commercial and Servile Claffes.

1. I NOW will propound the immemorial duties of man and woman, who must both ' remain firm in the legal path, whether united or feparated.

2. Day and night muft women be held by 'their protectors in a state of dependence; but in lawful and innocent recreations, though 'rather addicted to them, they may be left at ⚫ their own difpofal.

3. • Their fathers protect them in childhood; 'their husbands protect them in youth; their 'fons protect them in age: a woman is never 'fit for independence.

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4. Reprehenfible is the father, who gives 'not his daughter in marriage at the proper time; and the husband, who approaches not his wife in due feafon; reprehenfible alfo is the fon, who protects not his mother after the ' death of her lord.

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'Women must, above all, be restrained. • from the smallest illicit gratification; for, not being thus reftrained, they bring forrow on • both families:

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6. Let husbands confider this as the supreme law, ordained for all claffes; and let them, 'how weak foever, diligently keep their wives • under lawful restrictions;

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7. For he, who preferves his wife from 'vice, preferves his offspring from fufpicion of baftardy, his ancient ufages from neglect, his family from difgrace, himself from anguish, and • his duty from violation.

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8. The husband, after conception by his wife, becomes himself an embryo, and is born a fecond time here below; for which reason the wife is called jáyá, fince by her (jáyaté) he is born again:

9. 'Now the wife brings forth a fon endued ' with fimilar qualities to those of the father; so that, with a view to an excellent offspring, he muft vigilantly guard his wife.

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10. No man, indeed, can wholly restrain

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