Tag Smriti

Vedas Not Clear Women Chastity Pancha Kanyas Chaste?

I have not been able to find a clear-cut definition of chastity of women relating to Physical interaction in the Vedas.

Corrections, inputs are welcome.

Smritis, especially the Manu Smriti is eloquent in describing the Adultery by men and the punishment ot be meted out to them, the need to protect women

and how society will disintegrate because of a woman being not Chaste.

However I have not been able to locate the definition of Adultery by women specifically.

One finds the instance of Jamadagni, father of Parashurama, asking Parasuram to cut off his mother Renuka's head.

Where Are Manuscripts Of Vedas

There are four Vedas, Rig,Yajur, Sama and Atharva .

In addition to this, we have Upavedas,Vedangas,Parisista, not to speak of the Smritis.

Of this lot this is what has been collected.

"The complete corpus of Vedic mantras as collected in Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance (1907) consists of some 89,000 padas (metrical feet), of which 72,000 occur in the four Samhitas"

This is only for the Samhitas.

Brahmanas,Aranyakas,Upanishads remain.