[Wife beating in #Hinduism]

"Rogues, artisans, servants, badmen, drums, and women, are softened and set right by beating. They do not deserve good behaviour."

Source: Garuda Purana, Chapter 109, verse 31.
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"…If she is still unyielding, he should strike her with a stick or with the hand."

Source: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.4.7.
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"The wife, the son, the slave, the servant and the uterine brother shall be beaten with a rope or a split bamboo, when they have committed a fault."

Source: Manu Smriti 8.299
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But a wife can never hit her husband back!

"On being struck, if she were to strike him back, she is reborn as a tigress or a cat."

Source: Skanda Purana, Book 3, Section 2, Chapter 7, verse 43.
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