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If they followed these laws, they were treated decently by their husbands. Women's expected duties were strictly laid out in a list by Manu: "Offspring, religious rights, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself" (The Human Record, 158)...
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When a man and a woman wanted a divorce, after a full year of waiting, the woman would lose all her possessions: "but after a year let him deprive her of her property and cease to cohabit with her" (The Human Record, 158). This was the case unless the man was impotent, or didn't posses strength as a human...
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