Skandapurana 3.2.7.79.3

3.2.7.79.3

bharturāyuṣyamicchaṃtī dūrayenna pativratā .. 29 ..
bhartṛvidveṣiṇīṃ nārīṃ naiṣā saṃbhāṣate kvacit ..
naikākinī kvacidbhūyānna nagnā snāti ca kvacit ..3.2.7.30..
nolūkhale na muśale na varddhanyāṃ dṛṣadyapi ..
na yaṃtrake na dehalyāṃ satī copaviśetkvacit .. 31 ..
vinā vyavāyasamayātprāgalbhyaṃ na kvaciccareta ..
yatrayatra rucirbhartustatra premavatī sadā .. 32 ..
idameva vrataṃ strīṇāmayameva paro vṛṣaḥ ..
iyameva ca pūjā ca bharturvākyaṃ na laṃghayet .. .. 33 ..
klībaṃ vā duravasthaṃ vā vyādhitaṃ vṛddhameva vā ..
susthiraṃ duḥsthiraṃ vāpi patimekaṃ na laṃghayet .. 34 ..
sarpirlava(?)ṇahiṃgvādikṣaye'pi va pati vratā ..
patiṃ nāstīti na brūyādāyasīṣu na bhojayet .. 35 ..
tīrthasnānārthinī caiva patipādodakaṃ pibet ..
śaṃkarādapi vā viṣṇoḥ patirevādhi kaḥ striyaḥ .. 36 ..
vratopavāmaniyamaṃ patimullaṃghya yā caret ..
āyuṣyaṃ harate bharturmṛtā nirayamṛcchati .. 37 ..
uktā pratyuttaraṃ dadyānnārī yā krodhata tparā ..
saramā jāyate grāme śṛgālī nirjane vane .. 38 ..
strīṇāṃ hi paramaścaiko niyamaḥ samudāhṛtaḥ ..
abhyarcya caraṇau bhaturbho ktavyaṃ kṛtaniścayā .. 39 ..
uccāsanaṃ na seveta na vrajetparaveśmasu ..
tatra pāruṣyavākyāni brūyānnaiva kadācana ..3.2.7.40..
gurūṇāṃ sannidhau vāpi noccairbru yānnavāhayet .. 41 ..
yā bhartāraṃ parityajya rahaścarati durmatiḥ ..
ulūkī jāyate krūrā vṛkṣakoṭaraśāyinī .. 42 ..
tāḍitā tāḍayeccettaṃ sā vyāghrī vṛṣadaṃśikā ..
kaṭākṣayati yā'nyaṃ vai kekarākṣī tu sā bhavet .. 43 ..
yā bhartāraṃ parityajya miṣṭamaśnāti kevalam ..

wishing for her husband's long life, the faithful wife should not put [these] away.
She never converses with a woman who hates her husband.
She should never be alone anywhere, nor should she ever bathe naked.
Neither on a mortar, nor on a pestle, nor on a broom, nor on a grinding-stone,
nor on an oil-press, nor on the threshold should a virtuous woman ever sit.
Except at the time of sexual union, she should nowhere display boldness.
Wherever her husband has a liking, there she is always full of love.
This alone is the vow of women, this alone is the supreme virtue,
and this alone is worship: she must not transgress the word of her husband.
Whether he is impotent, in distress, diseased, or old,
well-situated or destitute, she must not transgress her husband alone.
Even when ghee, salt, asafoetida, and the like are exhausted, a faithful wife
should not say to her husband, "There is none," nor serve him in iron vessels.
Desiring the bath of a sacred ford, she should drink the water from her husband's feet.
For a woman, her husband is even greater than Śaṃkara or Viṣṇu.
She who observes vows, fasts, and observances by transgressing her husband
takes away her husband's longevity, and having died, she goes to hell.
When addressed, the woman who gives a retorting answer, full of anger,
becomes a female dog in a village, or a female jackal in a deserted forest.
For women, one supreme observance has been declared:
having worshipped the feet of her husband, she should eat with a resolute mind.
She should not occupy an elevated seat, nor go to the houses of others;
there she should never utter harsh words,
nor should she speak loudly or shout in the presence of elders.
The evil-minded woman who, abandoning her husband, wanders in secret,
becomes a cruel female owl dwelling in the hollow of a tree.
If, being struck, she strikes him, she becomes a tigress or a female cat;
she who casts sidelong glances at another man becomes cross-eyed.
She who, abandoning her husband, eats sweet foods alone—