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72 children through such practice, and when the husband returns she may present this gift to him and show him [saying] that you travelled to earn a living—this is the wealth that I have gathered in your absence. The conscience and human modesty cannot propose that such a shameless practice be acceptable. How can it be acceptable when the wife has not obtained a divorce from her husband, and has not freed herself from the restrictions of marriage? Fie! Nay, a thousand regrets that this is what the Aryas attribute to the Vedas! However, we cannot conclude that this is, in reality, the true teaching of the Vedas. It is entirely possible that the Jogis of this faith who remain celibate, within their own minds, are overcome by carnal passions—who may have concocted these notions and ascribed them to the Vedas, or by way of interpolation may have entered them into the Vedas; scholarly pandits have written that such a time befell the Vedas where they were extensively changed with many of their holy discussions altered. The intellect cannot accept that the Vedas actually presented such a teaching, nor can a proper conscience accept that a man by his own hand induces his chaste wife, who he has not divorced and taken up a lawful separation, to bed another for this is the act of one who procures harlots. If a woman, however, has obtained a divorce from her husband