Everything connected with religion, pleasure, and wealth, careful nursing, offspring for perpetuating the race, are all dependent on the wife. Indeed, the merits of a person himself as also of his deceased ancestors depend also on her.
प्रपतेद् यशसे दीप्तात् स च लोकान् न चाप्नुयात्। धर्मकामार्थकार्याणि शुश्रूषा कुलसंततिः॥