| 1846 - 664 pages
...this is the case with the husband, the following extract will sufficiently show : — " Let the wife who wishes to perform sacred ablution, wash the feet...everything else, she ought chiefly to worship her husband." * The devotion is not less prostrate in the case of a disciple toward his Priest. They tell a tale... | |
| Hollis Read - 1836 - 304 pages
...said, on Hindooism. " The supreme duty of a wife is to obey the mandate of her husband. Let the wife who wishes to perform sacred ablution, wash the feet...the water ; for a husband is to a wife greater than Shunuru, or Vishnop. Her husband is her god and gooroo, and religion and its services ; wherefore,... | |
| John Wilson - 1844 - 656 pages
...reserved for brothers, and other similar connections."! " Let a wife," it is said in the Skanda Purana, " who wishes to perform sacred ablution, wash the feet of her lord, and drink the water,—for a husband is to a wife greater than Shankara (Shiva) or Vishnu. The husband is her god,... | |
| Sendal Barnes Munger - 1845 - 390 pages
...death, or the more accumulated sorrows of the wife. It is written in the Hindu Scriptures—Let a wife who wishes to perform sacred ablution, wash the feet...the water; for a husband is to a wife greater than Shankar and Vishnu. The husband is her god, and priest, and religion, and its services,—wherefore,... | |
| 1847 - 672 pages
...and baseness, are pronounced inseparable from her nature ! " Let the wife," says the Skanda Purdtia, quoted by Dr. Wilson, " who wishes to perform sacred...for a husband is to a wife greater than Shankara or Vishtnu. The husband is her god, and guru, and religion, and its services : wherefore, abandoning everything... | |
| 1848 - 530 pages
...baseness, are pronounced inseparable from her nature ! " Let the wife," says the " Skanda Purâna," quoted by Dr. Wilson, " who wishes to perform sacred...for a husband is to a wife greater than Shankara or Vishtnu. The husband is her god, and guru, and religion, and its services; wherefore, abandoning everything... | |
| John Wilson - 1849 - 518 pages
...within her all due sense of personal responsibility. " Let a wife," it is said in the Skanda Purana, " who wishes to perform sacred ablution, wash the feet...than Shankara or Vishnu. The husband is her god, and priest, and religion ; wherefore, abandoning every thing else, she ought chiefly to worship her husband."... | |
| 1850 - 208 pages
...Shastars, who did so. The Skandh Puran says, " Let the wife, who wishes to perform sacred ablutions, wash the feet of her lord, and drink the water ; for a husband is to his wife greater than Shankar, or Vishnu. The husband is her god, and guru, and religion, and its services... | |
| Caleb Wright - 1852 - 382 pages
...of the Hindu, — " The supreme duty of a wife, is, to obey the mandate of her husband. Let the wife who wishes to perform sacred ablution, wash the feet of her lord, and drink the water, for the husband is to the wife greater than Vishnoo. If a man goes on a journey his wife shall not divert... | |
| London missionary society - 1853 - 596 pages
...from their sacred writings will give an idea of the manner in which she is treated. " Let the wife who wishes to perform sacred ablution, wash the feet...than Shankara or Vishnu. The husband is her god, and her guru (that is, her spiritual guide), and religion, and its services; wherefore, abandoning everything... | |
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