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One Thousand Proverbs on Woman, Wife and Daughter– 21
Why do I publish 1000 proverbs on women collected from different cultures? This is to teach a lesson to the Anti Manu Smrti idiots in the universities. Millions of women were burnt alive during the witch hunting by Christians. But the world knows only one Joan of Arc. In the whole wide world, greatest Tamil poet Bharati is the only one who never criticised women but praised them sky-high. Next comes Manu Smriti.
Here is what Manu says:
यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवताः ।
यत्रैतास्तु न पूज्यन्ते सर्वास्तत्राफलाः क्रियाः ॥ ५६ ॥
yatra nāryastu pūjyante ramante tatra devatāḥ |
yatraitāstu na pūjyante sarvāstatrāphalāḥ kriyāḥ || 56 ||
Where women are honoured, there the gods rejoice; where, on the other hand, they are not honoured, there all rites are fruitless.—(56)
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शोचन्ति जामयो यत्र विनश्यत्याशु तत् कुलम् ।
न शोचन्ति तु यत्रैता वर्धते तद् हि सर्वदा ॥ ५७ ॥
śocanti jāmayo yatra vinaśyatyāśu tat kulam |
na śocanti tu yatraitā vardhate tad hi sarvadā || 57 ||
Where the female relations live in grief, the family soon wholly perishes; but that family where they are not unhappy ever prospers.—(57)
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जामयो यानि गेहानि शपन्त्यप्रतिपूजिताः ।
तानि कृत्याहतानीव विनश्यन्ति समन्ततः ॥ ५८ ॥
jāmayo yāni gehāni śapantyapratipūjitāḥ |
tāni kṛtyāhatānīva vinaśyanti samantataḥ || 58 ||
The houses on which female relations, not being duly honoured, pronounce a curse, perish completely, as if destroyed by magic.—(58)
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तस्मादेताः सदा पूज्या भूषणाच्छादनाशनैः ।
भूतिकामैर्नरैर्नित्यं सत्कारेषूत्सवेषु च ॥ ५९ ॥
tasmādetāḥ sadā pūjyā bhūṣaṇācchādanāśanaiḥ |
bhūtikāmairnarairnityaṃ satkāreṣūtsaveṣu ca || 59 ||
Hence men who seek (their own) welfare, should always honour women on holidays and festivals with (gifts of) ornaments, clothes, and (dainty) food.—(59)
(Manu also said women’s all body parts are always pure)
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PART 21.
401.It is sometimes right even to obey a sensible wife.
402.The first wife fears her husband, the husband fears the second wife.
403. A wife is an evil that you can’t do without.
404. Don’t trust your crop till you put it in the granary, nor your wife till you put her in the grave.
405. A lucky man’s wives die; an unlucky one marries.
406. Where the devil fails, he sends an old woman.
407. Fire, woman and the sea, who can tell the worst of the three.
408. A woman reflects her husband in her face and a man’s wife is known by his shirt.
409. Woman’s love is a devil’s net.
—Serbian proverbs
410. In buying wives and melons there is always a danger.
412. The best women are those of which one speaks the least.
—Silesian proverbs
413. Everything for a time, but a wife till death, and God for ever.
414. He whose wives die and bees swarm will assuredly become rich.
415. Two old women and a goose—a market.
416. Women will keep silent only those things which they do not know.
—Slovakian
417. The wife is three walls, the husband one.
418. Woman is a necessary evil.
–Slovenian
419.A man’s best or worst fortune is his wife
420.Hast thou a mind to quarrel with thy wife, bid her bring water to thee in the sunshine.
Spanish
To be continued………………………….
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