TEXT 21
katham matis te vagatanyatha satam
kula-prasute kula-dusanam tv idam
bibharsi jaram yad apatrapa kulam
pitus ca bhartus ca nayasy adhas tamah
SYNONYMS
kathamhow; matih teyour consciousness; avagatahas gone down; anyathaotherwise; satamof the most respectable; kula-prasuteO my daughter, born in the family; kula-dusanamwho are the degradation of the family; tubut; idamthis; bibharsiyou are maintaining; jarama paramour; yatas it is; apatrapawithout shame; kulamthe dynasty; pituhof your father; caand; bhartuhof your husband; caand; nayasiyou are bringing down; adhah tamahdownward into darkness or hell.
TRANSLATION
O my daughter, who were born in a respectable family, how have you degraded your consciousness in this way? How is it that you are shamelessly maintaining a paramour? You will thus degrade the dynasties of both your father and your husband to hellish life.
PURPORT
It is quite clear that according to Vedic culture a woman who accepts a paramour or second husband in the presence of the husband she has married is certainly responsible for the degradation of her fathers family and the family of her husband. The rules of Vedic culture in this regard are strictly observed in the respectable families of brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas even today; only the sudras are degraded in this matter. For a woman of the brahmana, ksatriya or vaisya class to accept another husband in the presence of the husband she has married, or to file for divorce or accept a boyfriend or paramour, is unacceptable in the Vedic culture. Therefore King Saryati, who did not know the real facts of Cyavana Munis transformation, was surprised to see the behavior of his daughter.

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