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The book attempts to make use of nearly all the major and minor Puranas to understand a single, though a significant, limb of Indian family and society, the woman. Beginning enquiry with the female infant yet to be born, the authoress takes it through her childhood, marriage, motherhood, examines her role as a wife, her share in religious duties, and her woes of widowhood; makes an effort to understand her in the role of a prostitute and makes more specific ...