There where women are not adored, all acts become fruitless. If the women of a family, on account of the treatment they receive, indulge in grief and tears, that family soon becomes extinct.
अपूजिताश्च यत्रैताः सर्वास्तत्राफला: क्रियाः। तदा चैतत् कुलं नास्ति यदा शोचन्ति जामयः॥