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Devibhagavatapurana 3.20.65

Devībhāgavatapurāṇa 3.20.65

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Sanskrit

3.20.65

svayaṃvare srajaṃ dhṛtvā yadāgacchati maṇḍape |
sāmānyā sā tadā jātā kulaṭevāparā vadhūḥ ||

Desirous of selecting her husband, when the woman holding in her hands, the garland for her would-be-husband, goes to the Svayamvara hall, then she turns out like an ordinary unchaste woman. As a prostitute going to a public shop looks on many persons and judges of their merits and demerits according to her own power of judgment, the maid that goes in the Svayamvara hall does exactly the same.

Swami Vijnanananda 1921, The Sri Mad Devi Bhagavatam

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