...Sutra days, and a penance was prescribed for the sin which young India may remember with advantage. " He who has unjustly forsaken his wife shall put on...wife.' That shall be his livelihood for six months. f> Apastamba, I, 10, 28, 19." It is in the Sutras that we first find mention of the different forms...

...Laws of the Aryas " we find a singular, but probably wholesome, punishment for wife-desertion : — He who has unjustly forsaken his wife shall put on...ass's skin with the hair turned outside, and beg in seven.Jjetrses, saying : " Give alms to him jiilvr'iorsook his wife." That shall be his livelihood...

...only is a perfect man who consists of three persons united — his wife, himself, and his offspring." "He who has unjustly forsaken his wife shall put on an ass's skin with the hair turned outside, and lay in seven houses, saying: 'Give alms to him who forsook his wife.' That shall be his livelihood...

...the Christian era, were specific on the point. In Apastfimba's Aphorisms on the Sacred Law we read: "He who has unjustly forsaken his wife shall put on...wife.' That shall be his livelihood for six months. "But if a wife forsakes her husband she shall perform the twelve-night Krikkhra penance for as long...

...the family. On'y ''"' husband took a second wife for male issue. Hindus never knew an unjust divorce. "He who has unjustly forsaken his wife, shall put on an ass's skin, with the hair turned out side and beg in •seven houses for six months saying, 'give alms to him who forsook his wife."...

...reasonable otherwise a very humiliating punishment is prescribed for such an act by Apastamba99 who says, "He who has unjustly forsaken his wife shall put on...forsook his wife.' That shall be his livelihood for 6 months." Similarly if a wife forsook her husband she had to perform a hard penance for twelve nights....