CHAPITRE II - Homework ( Duties ? ) of the oldest wife to the younger wives of her husband.

The man can during the life of his first wife take it the others for the following motives:

Madness or bad character of the woman, the aversion of the husband [ 48 ], the infertility, the absence of offspring male ( mate ? ), incontinence of the woman.

[ Note 48: Manou, deliver IX. « The woman grumbling must be replaced in succession; the sterile woman, after eight years; the one who gives only girls, after eleven years.]

When the woman is sterile or has no son ( sons;thread ? ), she has to herself undertake her husband to take another woman, to give to this one a position superior to his, to consider her as a sister, to lavish him ( her ? ) the good advices, to treat ( handle ? ) her children as if they were his appropriate ( clean ? ) and to act there also towards his ( her ? ) servants, towards his ( her ? ) friends and relatives ( parents ? ).

When there will be several women, the oldest will make alliance with the one who follows her ( it ? ) at once in age and in row ( rank ? ) and will try to blur with the current favourite the woman whom the favourite replaced with the boss; then, having got to join forces all the women against the favourite, she ( it ? ) will then take a stand of that abandoned and, without compromising in any way, she ( it ? ) will make denounce ( cancel ? ) the favourite as nasty and quarrelsome.

If the favourite quarrels with the husband, the first woman feigned for her of the sympathy, incites him ( it ? ) and deteriorates ( aggravates ? ) so much that it is in her the difference of opinion. But yes, in spite of all his efforts, the husband continues to love the favourite, she ( it ? ) will change tactics and will be used to reconcile them not to fall herself ( itself ? ) in disgrace [ 49 ].

[ Note 49: in these advices all the brahmanique duplicity meets itself.]