...regardless of existence atter the death of their husbands : and this indifference, accompanied with hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...restraint on the indulgence of their inclinations in reapect to the number which they marry: Mime of them, especially Brahmins of higher birth, marry ten,...

...value without the consent of her son or daughter-in-law, who were all subject to lier authority but the day before. Cruel sons often wound the feelings...of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmins of higher birth, marry ten, twenty, or thirty women,* either...

...husbands, but also from their witnessing the distress in which widows of the same rank in life arc involved, and the insults and slights to which they...of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmins of higher birth, marry ten, twenty, or thirty women,* either...

...value, without the consent of her son or daughter-in-law, who were all subject to her authority but the day before. Cruel sons often wound the feelings...of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmuns of higher birth, marry ten, twenty, or thirty women,* either...

...insults and slights to which they are daily subjected, that they become in a great measure regai-dless of existence after the death of their husbands: and...of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmuns of higher birth, marry ten, twenty, or thirty women,* either...

...they are daily subjected, that they become in a great measure regardless of existence after the 94 death of their husbands : and this indifference, accompanied...source of the greatest misery in native families". He then speaks of " Brahmuns of higher birth" as marrying " ten, twenty, or thirty women"; and manifests...

...afterwards took place in the law of inheritance. In the course of this statement he says (pp. 274, 275), ' It is not from religious prejudices and early impressions...source of the greatest misery in native families." " His labours for his country," continues Dr. CAHo PENTER, " had, however, a mueh wider scope. He took...

...slights to which they are daily subjected, that they become in a great measure regardless of their existence after the death of their husbands : and...of their inclinations in respect to the number they marry. Some of them, especially Brahmuns of higher birth, marry ten, twenty, or thirty women,* either...

...to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide. These restraints on female inheritance encourge, in a great degree, polygamy, a frequent source of...greatest misery in native families; a grand object of Hindus being to secure a provision for their male offspring, the law, which relieves them from the...

...to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide. These restraints on female inheritance encourge, in a great degree, polygamy, a frequent source of...greatest misery in native families; a grand object of Hindus being to secure a provision for their male offspring, the law, which relieves them from the...