Bhagavatapurana 4.26.14

4.26.14

antaḥpura-striyo 'pṛcchad vimanā iva vediṣat /
api vaḥ kuśalaṃ rāmāḥ seśvarīṇāṃ yathā purā //

14—15. O Pracheenabarhis, as if anxious he enquired of the ladies in the harem. "Ladies, are your mistress and you all quite well. The splendour of wealth in the place does not look so bright as before; if the house be without a mother or wife to whom her husband is God, who would like an unfortunate wretch stay in it, like unto a chariot of broken parts?