which has been in two or three monasteries, and a bird two or three times ensnared, are so many instances of practical deceit.
101.
Subjugation comes by beating a wicked man,[1] by not speaking to a bad friend; to women there is subjugation by misfortune, to the greedy by moderation in food.
102.
The night is not pleasing without the moon, nor the ocean without waves, a pond without ducks, nor a maiden without a husband.[2]
103.
By a husband is wealth produced; by woman is its preservation; a man is, therefore, the origin; a woman like thread in a needle.
104.
All rivers are crooked; all forests are made of wood; all women, going into solitude, would do what is evil.
105.
A woman of contentious disposition or one using depreciatory language; one who, seeing a thing, has a desire to have it, who cooks and eats often, who eats before her husband, who lives in another's house—such a woman, even if she have a hundred sons, is shunned by men.
106.
The woman who, during meals and in her adornments, delights like a mother, who in things that should be concealed is bashful like a sister, who during business and when approaching her husband is respectful like a
- ↑ The following, according to an old Sanskrit proverb, improve their good qualities beating:— A bad man, a bad woman, gold, a drum, sugar-cane, and sesamum seed.
- ↑ The Hitopadeśa, iii. 29, says: "A husband is indeed the best ornament of a woman without other ornaments. She, though ornamented, deprived of him shines not."
