Thursday, October 28, 2010

manusmriti chapter 5(husband/wife/female/she)

Village pig prohibited: A twice- born man who knowingly eats mushrooms, a village-pig, garlic, a village-cock, onions, or leeks, will become an outcast.>>>manusmriti 5:19

Sacrifice of beast and birds allowed: Beasts and birds recommended (for consumption) may be slain by Brahmanas for sacrifices>>>manusmriti 5:22

No sin while eating meat: He who eats meat, when he honours the gods and manes, commits no sin, whether he has bought it, or himself has killed (the animal), or has received it as a present from others.>>>>manusmriti 5: 32

No sin in…There is no sin in eating meat, in (drinking) spirituous liquor, and in carnal intercourse, for that is the natural way of created beings, but abstention brings great rewards…..>>>manusmriti 5:56

Mourners: Let (mourners) eat food without factitious salt, bathe during three days, abstain from meat, and sleep separate on the ground.>>>manusmriti 5:73

Dead body: Let him carry out a dead Sudra by the southern gate of the town, but (the corpses of) twice-born men, as is proper, by the western, northern, or eastern (gates).>>>manusmriti 5:92

Independence: By a girl, by a young woman, or even by an aged one, nothing must be done independently, even in her own house.>>>manusmriti 5: 147

Female 
In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent.>>>148

She must not seek to separate herself from her father, husband, or sons; by leaving them she would make both (her own and her husband's) families contemptible.>>>149

She must always be cheerful, clever in (the management of her) household flairs, careful in cleaning her utensils, and economical in expenditure.>>>150

Worshipping husband as a god: The husband who wedded her with sacred texts, always gives happiness to his wife, both in season and out of season, in this world and in the next.>>>manusmriti 5:153

Though destitute of virtue, or seeking pleasure (elsewhere), or devoid of good qualities, (yet) a husband must be constantly worshipped as a god by a faithful wife.>>>154