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 Mat. ANCIENT LVDIA ACCORDING TO MaNTT. 131 ). 81io is not to be trusted wlfll 1 fsecnrt (p '. Mt&fgitB no benefit from either the instructional or the expiatory portions of ecriptnra (p. 247, 18), so that a bad woman ■ bed. Nevertheless, there nwma to lave been a nearer approach tn social infennmmsB between man and women than 3* the eft*o nnn. Anr! oourtatj of demeanour towurdw the lutt' enjoined^ Way should be made for u woman wluro she is me* in a mad (p. 86, 18B). And ul utMil-tinia precedence, eran before g OO to a bride and to a damsel (p, ii;, III). 13ua spirit mvixu hardly to have survived to tbfl ppaawri Say- At the village tank-. i.lht, am] at thi! stand-pipes of Calcutta, » OttiMg lor water are kept in the background until the men who may bu there haro aurvnd tbeuatdves* — a marked enn- • of tho foreigner to that 1 occurs at ibofimol&i&Basd pnmpa of the country Tillages in Korc-pe. ii noticeable tlmt a great quantity nfhair was • a beauty inn woman (p. ''"i, ba uexunua motion of u young elephant's limlw was f hnnght the model eefal gait! Hair with u red tinge was ranked as a deforn Marriage was a contract of muinal fidelity ' I) and was indissoluble (j and the c*w!i' > £ i > 1 not cuatiU't in the ceremony, baft in U '-ft- Marriages oT w!' ■ ,tfld by iudiaatioa on holli aidoa. dices p. M .; and Oo), tb I mu also j fl, . thirty years may murr. >htar to hw heart, man of twonTyfour yuan* ft damsel of but if tin In I otherwise bo impeded let tdffl marry imnn'diatety." A WODmn wm ilm to remarry (p- Mfc HJB), 1 with the system of tftfs joint family and agnatic i, [age ul' thr woman Is impos- sible, except with a brother or near relative of her lata hualwuul. Maau, however, admits t Men. on tho other Uai I marry mote ilmn once (p. Aft, 12). Sereral passage* in the ZM . .;,, U ' wmt Id support the inference lliat the second « I ««dy be taken when the fir ni, or when an -isnmaicB of which the hiubnud could supersede her, there are also other passages which certainly authorize polygamy (p. 26ft, 83 and 8tt), at any rate if tho wires other than t'ha principal wife are of a lower class. And throughout the hook it is assumed that a man of the twice-horn classes may ham a legitimat. class in addition to the a met whii thut Jtluiiu^s at tempi »t muintatTuuj^ a rigid linuof dumarcatiun betweeu each of tho four classes was most hollow.- A different ccrtvmony wax prfi5orII>fid fbr the marriage according as the was thai of a Brahman nmn with a Katuuriya woman, a Kshatrtya man with a ,i woman,. Vttf «»/.), And unfesa the nuptial rite* wore hlan -ould wot be ex |> '- the ufEprhiir would ho mt 12). Al:Sn.uirIt Mann in anrcral passages comhsit- ed tho gent'ftd tendency tn mckon woman as a ebattdi ho held to the doctrine tbatfhe Iiushii. ainl from this by ebborate w;holaslie retummui: bo dadnecd the conclusion that all her children are truly lir-T ttQlbaoH**, whoever thr bftVO been (p. 251 And npon tlie same ground, whatever fl pn earns during mnrriago is acquired by her for the benefit of her hushanil ( 1 1 _ 4 .', 4 1 tl) ■ al thoagh l r the game time abundantly clear that a womn have ae|>amto pi own Jerived fwm other snnrces (p. 5t*-, fi v 2), at any rate, after bur 1nwlj:irn!V "h-atli, ml to asanra to her in di fault of mo. The three so-callud twiee-horn rlasss. that ii, tho pure Aryans of umituted dftscent, nndea- wmrcd, ao far m was posaible, U> their raco-' ; hy obsnrTancu of the bulemu mom {p. 21, JHJ tot I. It Bted in the in v ' with and I"!'', hflSOwod pcntencelium tin Fedfl efrramonifls (p. 22, 38). DlUow this rilu was performed in the cast' " tl ] <-' lixtcenlh jifer, of a Boldiur before the tv aeoond, and of a merchant eonhl not properly !"-• perforti. tp.S5»,04.w*di«P-73,W!&
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