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Markandeya Purana 77.19

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 77.19

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Sanskrit

77.19

bāndhaveṣu ciraṃ vāso nārīṇāṃ na yaśaskaraḥ /
manoratho bāndhavānāṃ nāryā bhartṛgṛhe sthitiḥ //

“Now while I have been seeing thee my child, the days though very many may be reckoned as equal to half a moment; nevertheless righteousness suffers loss. Dwelling a long time among kinsmen brings no good repute to women; kinsmen hold a woman’s proper residence is in her husband’s house. Such art thou, and thou art mated to a husband, the Sun, the lord of the three worlds; deign not my daughter to dwell a long time in thy father’s house. Being such, go thou to thy husband’s home. I am pleased; thou hast been honoured by me. Thou must come again to see me, my beautiful one.”

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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