@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi IX. 5. Women must particularly be guarded against evil inclinations, however trifling (they may appear); for, if they are not guarded, they will bring sorrow on two families.
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi IX. 3. Her father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects (her) in youth, and her sons protect (her) in old age; a woman is never fit for independence.
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi IX. 2. Day and night women must be kept in dependence by the males (of their families), and, if they attach themselves to sexual enjoyments, they must be kept under one’s control.
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi IX. 17. (When creating them) Manu allotted to women (a love of their) bed, (of their) seat and (of) ornament, impure desires, wrath, dishonesty, malice, and bad conduct.
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi IX. 16. Knowing their disposition, which the Lord of creatures laid in them at the creation, to be such, (every) man should most strenuously exert himself to guard them.
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi IX. 15. Through their passion for men, through their mutable temper, through their natural heartlessness, they become disloyal towards their husbands, however, carefully they may be guarded in this (world).
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi IX. 14. Women do not care for beauty, nor is their attention fixed on age; (thinking); ‘(It is enough that) he is a man’, they give themselves to the handsome and to the ugly.
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi II. 215. One should not sit in a lonely place with one’s mother, sister or daughter; for the senses are powerful, and master even a learned man.
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi II. 214. For women are able to lead astray in (this) world not only a fool, but even a learned man, and (to make) him a slave of desire and anger.
@yuvrasinghrana@BhavnaJJoshi Manusmriti can hardly be said to be more tender to women than it was to the Shudra. It starts with a low opinion of women. Manu proclaims:II. 213. It is the nature of women to seduce men in this world for that reason the wise are never unguarded in the company of females.