जाया वा स्याज्जनित्री वा सम्भवः स्त्रीकृतो नृणाम् । हे कृतघ्नाश्तयोर्निन्दां कुर्वतां वः कुतः शुभम् ॥ ७४-११ ॥
The Śāstras say that a woman (strī) is both a man’s wife and mother, and men owe their birth to women. Those that speak ill of women, therefore, are ungrateful persons. How can you people be happy?
In the eye of the Śāstras, adultery in man or woman is equally condemned. Man neglects this condemnation, while women respect it. Hence, the superiority of women over men.
According to the Śāstras, a man that commits adultery shall dress himself in the skin of the ass with the hairy side without, and beg his meals for six months for his purification.
Though one might indulge in sexual pleasures for 100 years, the appetite for the same is not satiated. Whenever men refrain from sexual pleasures after the death of their wives, they do so because of their inability; while women after the death of their husbands boldly preserve their chastity, continuing in a state of widowhood.
जाया वा स्याज्जनित्री वा सम्भवः स्त्रीकृतो नृणाम् । हे कृतघ्नाश्तयोर्निन्दां कुर्वतां वः कुतः शुभम् ॥ ७४-११ ॥
The Śāstras say that a woman (strī) is both a man’s wife and mother, and men owe their birth to women. Those that speak ill of women, therefore, are ungrateful persons. How can you people be happy?
In the eye of the Śāstras, adultery in man or woman is equally condemned. Man neglects this condemnation, while women respect it. Hence, the superiority of women over men.
According to the Śāstras, a man that commits adultery shall dress himself in the skin of the ass with the hairy side without, and beg his meals for six months for his purification.
Though one might indulge in sexual pleasures for 100 years, the appetite for the same is not satiated. Whenever men refrain from sexual pleasures after the death of their wives, they do so because of their inability; while women after the death of their husbands boldly preserve their chastity, continuing in a state of widowhood.