Hello,
Apologies if it's already been mentioned--the Draupadi-Satyabhama
samvada in the aranyakaparvan of the Mahabharata (III.222-224) captures
in some detail the expectations of an ideal wife (first to rise, last to
sleep, last to eat, doesn't stand about gossiping...).
Best,
Arti
On 2023-08-06 12:30 AM, Ulrich Timme Kragh via INDOLOGY wrote:
Dear Gaia and Indology List,
Concerning the statement that a wife should rise in the morning before
her husband, etc., have a look at the book by Julia Leslie, /The
Perfect Wife: The Orthodox Hindu Woman according to the
Strīdharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan/ (Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 1989), p. 52.
There Leslie discusses the point under the rule that "a woman should
rise before her husband does" (/striyā bhartṛprabodhāt pūrvam eva
prabodhavyam/). The author of that text, Tryambaka, attributes this
rule to Yājñavalkya.
Sincerely, Timme
Dr. Hab. Ulrich Timme Kragh
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*Subject:* [INDOLOGY] a statement about respectable women
Dear list members,
I encountered the following statement:
kulāṅganā hi caramaṃ śāyinyaḥ prathamaṃ prabodhinyaś ca bhavanti
and it was marked with an iti.
(A variant wording has caramaśāyinyaḥ prathamāvabodhinyaś for caramaṃ
śāyinyaḥ prathamaṃ prabodhinyaś.)
Unfortunately my grepping yielded no result, therefore if someone
among you happens to know the source for this sentence or has a hunch
of the type of source which could include a similar statement, I would
be very grateful to hear from you. (I am thinking that dharmaśāstra
might be the right place to search for it, but it would be nice to
first narrow down the range of texts to examine.)
Beside that and regardless whether the above really is a verbatim
quote or not, do any of you know more about the prescription/usage, in
the ancient Indian context, that women, if they are respectable, wake
up first and go to bed last?
All the best,
Gaia Pintucci
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