You should make friendship with only those ladies who are highly born, who are sinless and devoted to their husbands; you should always shun women who are wrathful, addicted to drinks, gluttonous, thievish, wicked and fickle.
महाकुलीनाभिरपापिकाभिः स्त्रीभिः सतीभिस्तव सख्यमस्तु। चण्डाश्च शौण्डाश्च महाशनाश्च चौराश्च दुष्टाश्चपलाश्च वाः॥