Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H Kern
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 2546
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 46 MB

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DUTIES OF HUSBAND AND WIFE.
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76. If the husband went abroad for some sacred duty, (she) must wait for him eight years, if (he went) to (acquire) learning or fame six (years), if (he went) for pleasure three years.
77. For one year let a husband bear with a wife in who hates him ; but after (the lapse of) a year let him deprive her of her property and cease to cohabit with her.
78. She who shows disreşpect to (a husband) who is addicted to (some evil) passion, is a drunkard, or diseased, shall be deserted for three months (and be) deprived of her ornaments and furniture.
79. But she who shows aversion towards a mad or outcast (husband), a eunuch, one destitute of manly strength, or one afflicted with such diseases as punish crimes, shall neither be cast off nor be deprived of her property.
80. She who drinks spirituous liquor, is of bad life,'i.e. “shall not adorn herself, nor visit the houses of strangers, or go to festivals' (Medh., Kull., Râgh.).
76. Gaut. XVIII, 15, 17; Vas. XVII, 75-80. Kull., Nar., and Râgh. declare that after the expiration of the terms mentioned the wife shall go to seek her husband. Nand. says, 'the meaning is that no sin is committed if she afterwards takes another husband.' Medh. holds that she shall support herself, as before, by blameless occupations and remain chaste. He mentions the opinion of others, according to which she may take another husband in accordance with Narada's and Parâsara's precepts, but rejects it. 'For pleasure,' i. e. ' in order to gain the favours of another woman whom he prefers’ (Medh., Kull., Râgh.).
77. Her property,' i.e.'the ornaments and other wealth given to her by himself' (Kull., Rågh., Nand.), or her separate property, which he may have given to her' (strîdhana, Nâr.). The commentators add that she must, however, be maintained.
78. 'Addicted to (some evil) passion,' i.e. to gambling and so forth' (Kull., Nár.), or to avarice' (Râgh.).
80–81. Baudh. II, 4, 6; Yâgñ. I, 73. 80. Diseased,' i.e. afflicted with leprosy or the like' (Kull.);
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