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Letter "G" » Guru Nanak Quotes
«To be mothers were women created, and to be fathers men, religious rites, therefore, are ordained in the Veda to be performed ,by the husband together with the wife.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«If, after the nuptial fee has been paid for a maiden, the giver of the fee dies, she shall be given in marriage to his brother, in case she consents.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Let mutual fidelity continue until death, this may be considered as the summary of the highest law for husband and wife.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Let man and woman, united in marriage, constantly exert themselves, that ,they may not be disunited ,and may not violate their mutual fidelity.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Thus has been declared to you the law for a husband and his wife, which is intimately connected with conjugal happiness, and the manner of raising offspring in times of calamity, learn ,now the law concerning the division of the inheritance.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«After the death of the father and of the mother, the brothers, being assembled, may divide among themselves in equal shares the paternal ,and the maternal estate, for, they have no power ,over it while the parents live.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«The eldest alone may take the whole paternal estate, the others shall live under him just as ,they lived under their father.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«Immediately on the birth of his first born a man is ,called the father of a son and is freed from the debt to the manes, that ,son , therefore, is worthy ,to receive the whole estate.»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
«As a father ,supports his sons, so let the eldest support his younger brothers, and let them also in accordance with the law behave towards their eldest brother as sons ,behave»
Author: Guru Nanak
(Spiritual leader)
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