Kama Sutra by A.N.D. Haksar

Author:A.N.D. Haksar [Vatsyayana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141968384
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

During the Husband’s Absence*

When he is travelling and away, the only jewellery she wears is that which signifies that she is married. Awaiting his news, she keeps fasts dedicated to the gods and looks after the household. She sleeps at the feet of the elders, does her work with their advice and endeavours to acquire and preserve things her husband would like. Her expenditure on daily needs and special tasks is appropriate and she does not forget to complete the works her husband had begun. Her visits to her own kinsmen are confined to occasions of joy and grief. Even then she goes with someone from her husband’s household, without any change in her style of dressing during his absence, and does not stay out too long.

(42–45)

Her fasts are undertaken with the elders’ permission. All selling and buying is carried out through honest and dependable servants, so that the assets can be augmented and the expenditure minimized as much as possible. On her husband’s return, she first lets him see her in the common garb she had worn while he was away. Then she prays to the gods and offers him some gifts. Such is her life during his absence.

(46–47)

There are two verses here:

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