Women in ancient India
a. were legally owned by their husbands and male children.
b. were never permitted to study the Vedas or own land, but could often serve as gurus.
c. never married before the age of twenty-one years.
d. were in theory required that a widow throw herself upon her dead husband's funeral pyre.
e. were barred from even viewing the ritual of sati.
d
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