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.”
Translations (2)
- The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation
Linked texts (3)
- Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmyam — Sanskrit
- Indische Sprüche — Otto von Böhtlingk 1863, Sanskrit
- Dharmāraṇyakhaṇḍa — Sanskrit
Discussed in (1)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English