Truth, pleasure, religious merit, and Heaven, as acquirable by good qualities, of women, as also all the objects of their desire, O foremost of twice-born ones, depend on the husband.
सत्यं रतिश्च धर्मश्च स्वर्गश्च गुणनिर्जितः॥ स्त्रीणां पतिसमाधीनं कांक्षितं च द्विजर्षभ।