That blameless girl, however, began to watch all the movements of her husband; but remembering what the sage (Narada) had said, she considered him as already dead.
निरीक्षमाणा भर्तारं स्रवावस्थमनिन्दिता। मृतमेव हि भर्तारं काले मुनिवचः स्मरन्॥