• Ideals of Marriage from the Chapter "Marriage", in Hindu Dharma : kamakoti.org:
  The Vedas are learned during the years of student-bachelorhood. Then the 'theory' taught has to be put into practice; in other words the rites prescribed in the Vedas must be performed. For this purpose a man has to take a helpmate after he has completed his brahmacaryasrama. This helpmate is a 'property' that can never be seperated from him. She is not meant not only to be a cook for him, not only one to give sensual gratif...
  The Vedas are learned during the years of student-bachelorhood. Then the 'theory' taught has to be put into practice; in other words the rites prescribed in the Vedas must be performed. For this purpose a man has to take a helpmate after he has completed his brahmacaryasrama. This helpmate is a 'property' that can never be seperated from him. She is not meant not only to be a cook
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