...widow to continue till death for giving all injuries, performing austere duties, avoiding every sexual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable...have been followed by such women as were devoted to only one husband".2' While comparing the relative advantages of sati and ascetic life, Rammohun gave...

...servile class.* Those of the higher classes are not even to pronounce the name of another man, but " to continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing...cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue." * Besides these strict precepts relating to the government of the passions, other circumstances would...

...servile class.* Those of the higher classes are not even to pronounce the name of another man, but " to continue till death forgiving all injuries, performing...cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue." * Besides these strict precepts relating to the government of the passions, other circumstances would...

...living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruit ; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. Let her continue...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),...

...marriage even from the remotest and most venerated periods of Hindoo antiquity. It is the following :— " Let her continue till death, forgiving all injuries,...such women, as were devoted to one only husband." — Menu Poet 143, s. 158. The concluding category of the above exiract, viz , " which have have been...

...continue till death forgiving allinjuries, ' performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual plea' sure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules '...such women, • as were devoted to one only husband. • 159. ' Many thousands of Brdhmans, having avoided • sensuality from their early youth, and having...