extracts from the digests in question, are quoted for your information.
Ratnakar.
"Moreover the verses of Devala, who sanctions the re-marriage of women, declaring that a married woman whose husband has left her, shall wait for eight years, and after that take another husband; and that she may do the same under the circumstances specified therein, refer to former yogas, as also does the appointment of a widow to a brother or some other near kinsman for the purpose of raising issue."
"But a widow, who from a wish to bear children, slights her deceased husband by marrying again, brings disgrace on herself here below, and shall be excluded from the seat of her lord."
"Issue begotten on a woman by any other than her husband, is here declared to be no progeny of hers: no more than a child begotten on the wife of another man, belongs to the begetter, nor is a second husband allowed in any part of this code to a virtuous woman."
"Such a commission to a brother or other near kinsman is no where mentioned in the nuptial texts of the Veda; nor is the marriage of a widow even named in the laws concerning marriage."
Mahabharat, 1st Book.
"From this day I enact that a woman have only one husband as long as she lives, and whether he be alive or dead, if she go to another man, she shall doubtless be degraded."
Aditya Purana.
