[INDOLOGY] a statement about respectable women

[Shubham Arora]

(Apologies to mods, I replied with the wrong email address originally. Hopefully this goes through properly)

Hi Gaia and list members,

You might be interested in checking out the fourth book of the Kāmasūtra, titled “bhāryādhikārika or Wives.” The first chapter of this book discusses a wife’s lifestyle and her household duties. In particular:
paścāt saṃveśanaṃ pūrvam utthānam anavabodhanaṃ ca suptasya [KS 4.1.17].
“she lies down after him, gets up before him, and never wakes him up when he is asleep” (Doniger and Kakar 2002: 95).
The following section talks about her conduct during her husband’s absence. Hope this helps. 

All best,
Shubham


—
Shubham Arora 
Doctoral Candidate
Dept. of Asian Studies | University of British Columbia

> On Aug 2, 2023, at 12:41 AM, Gaia Pintucci via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> 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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