Shloka 156

Matsya Purana — The Strategy to Defeat Tāraka: Pārvatī’s Birth

Devanagari script

स्त्रिया विरहिता सृष्टिर् जन्तूनां नोपपद्यते स्त्रीजातिस्तु प्रकृत्यैव कृपणा दैन्यभाषिणी शास्त्रालोचनसामर्थ्यम् उज्झितं तासु वेधसा //

Transliteration

striyā virahitā sṛṣṭir jantūnāṃ nopapadyate strījātistu prakṛtyaiva kṛpaṇā dainyabhāṣiṇī śāstrālocanasāmarthyam ujjhitaṃ tāsu vedhasā //

Translation

A creation of beings without woman cannot be sustained. Yet the female kind is, by nature, described as helpless and speaking in tones of distress; and Vedhas, the Creator, has withheld from them the capacity to scrutinize the śāstras.