Women were considered inept, inconsistent, and sensual and were restrained from learning the Vedic texts or participating in important social functions. ...

The nuptial ceremony is stated to be the Vedic sacrament for women (and to be equal to the initiation), serving the husband (equivalent to) the residence in ...

'Through neglect of the Veda-study, through deviation from the rule of conduct, ... (The milk) of all wild animals excepting buffalo-cows, that of women, ...

Six sons, begotten (by Aryans) on women of equal and the next lower castes (Anantara), .... the study of the Veda, and the performance of sacrifices. ...

Stealing grain, base metals, or cattle, intercourse with women who drink ... who are (engaged in or) have offered a (Vedic) sacrifice, or a (Brahmana) woman ...

And to this effect many sacred texts are sung also in the Vedas, in order to (make) fully known the true disposition (of women); hear (now those texts which ...

The vow (of studying) the three Vedas under a teacher must be kept for .... Women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers, brothers, husbands, ...

Let him avoid atheism, cavilling at the Vedas, contempt of the gods, .... (thus) hiding his sin under (the pretext of) a vow and deceiving women and Sudras. ...

From those versed in the three Vedas let him learn the threefold (sacred ..... on the behaviour of (the women in) his harem, and on the doings of his spies. ...

Women, also, who in like manner have committed a theft, ... For in the performance of the acts prescribed by the Veda all those (others) are fully comprised ...