1. Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.
“ Moreover, you should not say this, since even fools know that wives should
follow their husbands. For thus it is said:
• Moonlight goes with the moon, the lightning clings to the cloud, and women
follow their husbands
• A woman who follows after her husband shall surely purify three families: her
mother's, her father's, and that into which she was given in marriage. ...
• What profit is there in the life of a wretched woman who has lost her husband?
Her body is as useless as a banyan tree in a cemetery. ...'
Thus speaking she fell at the king's feet, begging that a fire be provided for
her. And when the king heard her words ... he caused a pyre to be erected
... and gave her leave and in his presence (she) entered the fire together
with her husband's body."
Anonymous collection of stories about a semi-legendary king
in South Asia named Vikrama, assembled between the 11th
and 13th centuries