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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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One Thousand Proverbs on Women, Wives and Daughters- part 24
482. Alas for the man whose affliction is his wife.
483. Who can act so as to please a woman?
484. What manner of man who he is less than a woman?
485.When a woman goes on a journey it is because a man opens the door for her.
486. If a woman has sworn your undoing , pass the night awake. If a man has sworn your undoing, pass the night sleeping.
487. The disgrace of a woman is abiding.
488. The scald headed woman prides herself on the hair of her maternal aunt’s daughter.
489. It is better for a woman to marry the man who loves her than to mate with the man she loves.
490. Drink from the hand of woman you love, but do not let her drink from your hand.
491. He who wishes to excel in wisdom, should not allow himself to be ruled by women.
492. Where women are honoured there the gods are pleased.
(It is in the Manu Smriti of Hindus)
493. Women are part cut out of men .
(It is the Hindu concept of Ardha Nareeswara)
494. Women are the snares of Satan
495. When you get near women you get near trouble.
—Arabic proverbs.
496. The wife makes her known at the cradle
—Armenian
497. Better a woman blind than too beautiful.
498. Women’s appetite is twice that of man, their intelligence four times and their eight times.
(It is in Hindu Sanskrit sloka)
—Burmese
499. A girl is worth one tenth of a boy.
500. A young girl must be kept like a tiger in the house.
501. What is worn is clothing, what dies is a wife.
(or worn out it is clothing, when old it is a wife
502. A whole house full of sons and daughters, is not after all equal to a second wife.
503. An ugly wife and lean piece of ground protect the house.
504. You may beat your wife as much as you like provided the stick is no bigger than your thumb.
505.A man can have a wife for five dollars, for a donkey he must give fifteen.
506. Husband and wife have no enmities that can survive a night.
507. A wife is like a wall of mud bricks, take off one row and there is another below it
(wife no sooner dead than the husband plans to secure another.)
508. If a man is unfaithful to his wife, it is like spitting from a house into the street, but if a woman is unfaithful to her husband, it is like spitting from the street into the house.
509. Teach your son in the hall and your wife on the pillow.
510. The wife should sing, and the husband accompany.
511. Wife, wealth, children, pay are all predestined.
512. A wife’s long tongue is the flight of steps by which misfortunes come.
513. Do not burn down your house in order to inconvenience even your chief wife‘s mother.
514. Ugly wives and stupid maids are priceless treasures.
515. Other people’s wives are the best; one’s own children are the best; vegetables in one’s own garden are not relished, those from other gardens are the best.
516. Men love their own compositions and other men’s wives.
517. It is impossible to be more malevolent than a woman.
518. Rogue is bestowed upon the beautiful woman.
519. It is easier for one dishonest a woman clad in furs get admittance to the temple than ten honest females rags into a good man’s house.
520. Though a woman has given you ten sons, do not trust her.
521. A secret revealed to a woman is a bubble that is blown.
522. A man thinks he knows, but a woman knows better.
523. Such is the stupidity of woman that it is incumbent on her, in every particular, to distrust herself and obey her husband.
524. A hundred men can make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
525. When a man is mad on a woman- wait- only she herself can cure him.
—Chinese proverbs
To be continued……………………
Tags. One Thousand Proverbs, on Women, Wives and Daughters-, part 24
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