...protectors in a state of dependance.* Who are meant by their protectors is immediately explained : " Their fathers protect them in childhood ; their husbands protect them in youth, their sons protect them in age : a woman," it is added, " is never fit for independence. Let husbands consider this as the...

...ornament, impure appetites, wrath, weak flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. Day and night must women be held by their protectors in a state of dependence." '. • ' . ' i • :' The permission of polygamy, and the ease with which a man may put away his wife,5...

...ornament, impure appetites, wrath, weak flexibility, desire of mischief, and bad conduct. Day and night must women be held by their protectors in a state of dependence." The permission of polygamy, and the ease with which a man may put away his wife,5 must be highly unfavourable...

...indulged in general declarations of her unfituess for that character. Menu it is true says of women "Their fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands protect them in youth, their sons protect them in age. A woman ia never fit for independence :" but what does this prove in respect to their civil...

...woman, who must both remain firm in the ' legal path, whether united or separated. 2. ' Day and night must women be held by their ' protectors in a state of dependence ; but in lawful ' and innocent recreations, though rather addicted to 4 them, they may be left at their...

...woman, who must both remain firm in the ' legal path, whether united or separated. 2. ' Day and night must women be held by their * protectors in a state of dependence ; but in lawful 1 and innocent recreations, though rather addicted to ' them, they may be left at their...

...of women. " To be mothers were women created," says the Sastra ; " day and night must women be held in a state of dependence." " Their fathers protect...husbands protect them in youth, their sons protect them in age ; a woman is never fit for independence." Again : " Let husbands, how weak soever, diligently...

...sex. The Hindu law is strangely at variance with it in this particular. " Day and night," says Menu, " must women be held by their protectors in a state...husbands protect them in youth ; their sons protect them in age : a woman is never fit for independence. " No man, indeed, can wholly restrain women by violent...

...and criminal law, and the duties of relatives and classes. Concerning women, Menu decrees, that they raven, " Nevermore." And the raven, never flitting,...sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pa in youth, their sons in age; a woman is never fit for independence." Learned women, in India, are usually...

...and criminal law, and the duties of relatives and classes. Concerning women, Menu decrees, that they be held by their protectors in a state of dependence....fathers protect them in childhood, their husbands m youth, their sons in age; a woman is never fit for independence." Learned women, in India, are usually...