THE LAWS OF MENU, SON OF BRAHMA, (CONTINUED.) CHAPTER THE NINTH. On Judicature; on Law, Private and Criminal; and on the Commercial and Servile Claffes. 1. I NOW will propound the immemorial 'duties of man and woman, who must both • remain firm in the legal path, whether united or feparated. 2. Day and night muft women be held by their protectors in a state of dependence; but in lawful and innocent recreations, though • rather addicted to them, they may be left at their own difpofal. 3. • Their fathers protect them in childhood; their husbands protect them in youth; their fons protect them in age: a woman is never • fit for independence. 6 4. Reprehenfible is the father, who gives not his daughter in marriage at the proper time; and the husband, who approaches not his wife in due feafon; reprehenfible alfo is the fon, who protects not his mother after the 6 death of her lord. 5. 'Women muft, above all, be reftrained 'from the smalleft illicit gratification; for, not being thus reftrained, they bring forrow on both families: 6. Let hufbands confider this as the fupreme law, ordained for all claffes; and let them, 'how weak foever, diligently keep their wives ' under lawful restrictions; 6 7. For he, who preferves his wife from 'vice, preferves his offspring from fufpicion of baftardy, his ancient ufages from neglect, his family from difgrace, himself from anguish, and his duty from violation. 8. The husband, after conception by his wife, becomes himself an embryo, and is born a fecond time here below; for which reason the wife is called jayá, fince by her (jáyaté) he is born again: 9. 'Now the wife brings forth a fon endued 'with fimilar qualities to thofe of the father; • so that, with a view to an excellent offspring, • he must vigilantly guard his wife. 6 10. No man, indeed, can wholly restrain women by violent measures; but, by these expedients, they may be reftrained: 11. Let the hufband keep his wife employ⚫ed in the collection and expenditure of wealth, in purification and female duty, in the pre'paration of daily food, and the fuperintend· ence of household utenfils. 12. By confinement at home, even under • affectionate and obfervant guardians, they are not secure; but those women are truly secure, 'who are guarded by their own good inclina ، ⚫tions. ، 13. Drinking Spirituous liquor, affociating 'with evil perfons, abfence from her husband, rambling abroad, unfeasonable fleep, and dwelling in the houfe of another, are fix 'faults which bring infamy on a married wo 6 man: 6 14. Such women examine not beauty, nor pay attention to age; whether their lover be handfome or ugly, they think it is enough that he is a man, and pursue their pleasures. 15. Through their paffion for men, their mutable temper, their want of fettled affection, and their perverfe nature (let them be guard'ed in this world ever fo well) they foon be ' come alienated from their hufbands. 16. Yet should their husbands be diligently 'careful in guarding them; though they well |