Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c12.24

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¹ So, if naivam were read for naiva. But after all it is better to keep to naiva, and to join cl. 22b with 22a : ("For the woman) there is (is of avail) neither any sacrifice, nor gift to the dead, nor fasting, but through obedience towards her husband she wins heaven." This reading is the more likely in that this saying with fixed variations is often found. So, for instance, Viṣṇusmṛti, xxv, 15 : Nāsti strīṇāṃ pṛthagyajño, na vrataṃ nāpy uposhitam ; Paṭim cuçrūshate yat tu tena svarge mahīyate. Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa, xvi, 61 : Nāsti strīṇāṃ pṛthagyajño, na çrāddhaṃ nāpy uposhitam ; Bhaṭṛiçuçrūshayaivaitān lokān ishtān vrajanti hi. Cp. e.g. MBh., i, 158.24 ; xiii, 8.20 ; 40.11 f. ; 59.29.