...to pious austerity ; but a widow, who, from a wish to bear children, slights her deacesed husband, brings disgrace on herself here below, and shall be excluded from the abode of her lord."t Thus the legislature has forbidden the recourse of a widow or wife to another...

...heaven, if, after the decease of her lord, she devotes herself to pious austerity ; but a widow who slights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings...and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord.' Whether the Vedas (the Hindu scriptures) and the Vedic commentaries expressly lay down, that a widow...

...of her lord, she devote herself to pious austerity : but a widow, who, from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings...and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord." — Inst. of Menu, ch. 5. 157—161. Second marriages were permitted to men. — Tbkl,, 167, 8, 9....

...deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. 161. But a widow, who, from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings...below, and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord. 163. She, who neglects her former (purval) lord, though of a lower class, and takes another (para)...

...from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband, by marrying again, brings disgrace upon herself here below, and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord' (Ver. 161I. Here Menu by the expression 'let her continue till death', imperatively commands the widows...

...the " decease of her lord, she devote herself to pious austerity ; but a " widow, who slights her1 deceased husband by marrying again, " brings disgrace...and shall be excluded from " the seat of her lord."* These and many other texts, enjoining purity of life and manners to the widow, are to be found in this...

...she devote herself to pious austerity. 142 MENU:— But a widow who, from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings...below; and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord. 143 MENU:— Issue begotten on a woman by any other than her husband is here declared to be no progeny...

...preferred (8) : but she who, after ier husband's death, contracts a second marriage, brings disgrace upon herself here below, and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord. Nor is a eecond husband, in any part of the code, allowed to a virtuous woman (9). A Sudra woman only...

...by such women as were devoted to one only husband. licit a widow, who, from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband (by marrying again),...herself here below, and shall be excluded from the M'iii of her lord. We here perceive no traces of the Sati rite, to which not the most distant allusion...

...of her lord, she devote herself to pious ' austerity : iOJ. ' But a widow, who, from a wish to hear chil• dren, slights her deceased husband by marrying...brings disgrace on herself here below, and shall be ex' eluded from the seat of her lord. 162. 'Issue, begotten on a woman by any other • than her husband,...