The woman, who serves not her husband, being engaged in excellent religious rites and fasts, shall fare wretchedly in the life to come; and a woman gets at the excellent abode of the celestials by serving her husband.
व्रतोपवासनिरता या नारी परमोत्तमा॥ भर्तारं नानुवर्तेत सा च पापगतिर्भवेत्।