O lord, it behoves you to relate to us the excellency of chaste women, who, O blameless one, putting a check upon all their senses and even restraining their minds, always think their husbands as gods. O holy one, O lord, O Brahmana, the worship that sons offer to their fathers and mothers and also what wives render to their husbands, appears to me be fraught with difficulty. In fact, I do not find anything more difficult than the duties of chaste women (to their husbands).
पतिव्रतानां माहात्म्यं वक्तुमर्हसि नः प्रभो। निरुद्ध्य चेन्द्रियग्रामं मनः संरुध्य चानघ॥ पतिं दैवतवच्चापि चिन्तयन्त्यः स्थिता हि याः। भगवन् दुष्करं त्वेतत् प्रतिभाति मम प्रभो॥ मातापित्रोश्च शुश्रूषा स्त्रीणां भर्तरि च द्विजा स्त्रीणां धर्मात् सुघोराद्धि नान्यं पश्यामि दुष्करम्॥