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THE MANNER OF LIVING OF A VIRTUOUS WOMAN,

AND OF HER BEHAVIOUR DURING THE ABSENCE OF HER HUSBAND

A VIRTUOUS woman, who has affection for her husband, should act in conformity with his wishes as if he

were a divine being, and with his consent should take upon herself the whole care of his family. She should

keep the whole house well cleaned, and arrange flowers of various kinds in different parts of it, and make the

floor smooth and polished so as to give the whole a neat and becoming appearance. She should surround the

house with a garden, and place ready in it all the materials required for the morning, noon and evening

sacrifices. Moreover she should herself revere the sanctuary of the Household Gods, for, says Gonardiya,

`nothing so much attracts the heart of a householder to his wife as a careful observance of the things

mentioned above'.

Towards the parents, relations, friends, sisters, and servants of her husband she should behave as they

deserve. In the garden she should plant beds of green vegetables, bunches of the sugar cane, and clumps of

the fig tree, the mustard plant, the parsley plant, the fennel plant, and the xanthochymus pictorius. Clusters of

various flowers such as the trapa bispinosa, the jasmine, the jasminum grandiflorum, the yellow amaranth, the

wild jasmine, the tabernamontana coronaria, the nadyaworta, the china rose and others, should likewise be

planted, together with the fragrant grass andropogon schaenanthus, and the fragrant root of the plant

andropogon miricatus. She should also have seats and arbours made in the garden, in the middle of which a

well, tank, or pool should be dug.

The wife should always avoid the company of female beggars, female Buddhist mendicants, unchaste and

roguish women, female fortune tellers and witches. As regards meals she should always consider what her

husband likes and dislikes and what things are good for him, and what are injurious to him. When she hears

the sounds of his footsteps coming home she should at once get up and be ready to do whatever he may

command her, and either order her female servant to wash his feet, or wash them herself. When going

anywhere with her husband, she should put on her ornaments, and without his consent she should not either

give or accept invitations, or attend marriages and sacrifices, or sit in the company of female friends, or visit

the temples of the Gods. And if she wants to engage in any kind of games or sports, she should not do it

against his will. In the same way she should always sit down after him, and get up before him, and should

never awaken him when he is asleep. The kitchen should be situated in a quiet and retired place, so as not to

be accessible to strangers, and should always look clean.

The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana

CHAPTER V. ON CERTAIN FORMS OF MARRIAGE1 54