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Markandeyapurana 16.53

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 16.53

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Sanskrit

16.53

putra uvāca
evamuktvā surāṃstasyā gatvā sā mandiraṃ śubhā /
uvāca kuśalaṃ pṛṣṭā dharmaṃ bhartustathātmanaḥ //

The son spoke:
Thus having addressed the gods, she the beautiful went to her temple, and being asked by that lady regarding the welfare and righteousness of her husband, spoke.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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anasūyovāca

Anasūyā spoke:
“Perchance thou rejoicest, O blessed lady, at the sight of thy husband’s countenance! Perchance too thou esteemest thy husband far above all the gods! Through obedience indeed to my husband I have gained a great reward; through the obtainment of the results of every wish obstacles have been removed. Five debts a man must ever discharge, O virtuous lady. Thus, he must amass wealth according to the duties of his own caste: and he must next apply the wealth gained to a fitting object according to the precepts: he should always live full of compassion, observing truth, candour, austerities and liberality: and he must daily perform the ceremonies prescribed by the Śāstras and free from anger and enmity, with faith preceding, according to his ability. A man with great pain gradually obtains the worlds specially allotted to his own caste, such as that of the Prajāpatis and other worlds, O virtuous lady. So women by obedience to their husbands obtain half of the entire merit painfully earned by their husbands. There is no separate sacrifice for women, nor śrāddha, nor fasting: for by obedience to their husbands indeed they reach these desired worlds. Therefore, O virtuous and exalted lady, let thy mind ever be turned towards obedience to thy husband, since a husband is a wife's supreme bliss. Whatever worship the husband may offer by right ceremonies to the gods, and whatever to the pitṛs and guests, even one half of that does the wife, whose mind is centred on him alone, enjoy by very obedience to her husband.”

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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