Skandapurana 4.4.16.5

4.4.16.5

rejoicing with her husband, the devoted wife enjoys heavenly bliss.
Blessed is that mother in the world, blessed again is that father, / and blessed is that glorious husband in whose house there is a devoted wife.
Three lineages of the father, three of the mother, and three of the husband— / by the merit of a devoted wife, they enjoy the pleasures of heaven.
Misbehaved women, by the destruction of good conduct, drag down the three lineages— / of father, mother, and husband—and become sorrowful here and in the hereafter.
Wherever the foot of a devoted wife touches the earth, / there the earth considers: 'Here, the purifying woman leaves no burden [upon me].'
Even the sun, fearing, touches the devoted wife; / the moon and the wind also [touch her] only for their own purification, not otherwise.
The waters ever desire the touch of a devoted wife: / 'Today our dullness is destroyed; today we have become the purifiers of others.'
Are there not women in every house, proud of their form and charm? / But a devoted wife is obtained only through devotion to the Lord of the Universe.
A wife is the root of the householder; a wife is the root of happiness; / a wife yields the fruits of dharma; a wife is for the increase of offspring.
The next world and this world—both are won by a wife; / a wifeless man is not fit for the rites of gods, ancestors, guests, and sacrifices.
He indeed should be known as a householder in whose house is a devoted wife; / another woman devours him at every step like an ogress or old age.
Just as the body becomes purified by immersion in the Gaṅgā, / so one becomes purified by the auspicious sight of a devoted wife.
If by fate she somehow does not follow her husband [in death], / even then her good conduct must be preserved; by the breach of good conduct she falls low.
Through her fault, her husband also falls from heaven, not otherwise; / [and likewise] her father, mother, and group of brothers.
And that woman who, upon her husband's death, observes widowhood with restraint, / having attained her husband once again, enjoys the delights of heaven.