Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 16, Shloka 67
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
पतिप्रसादादिह च प्रेत्य चैव यशस्विनि ।
नारी सुखमवाप्नोति नार्या भर्ता हि देवता ॥
pati-prasādād iha ca pretya caiva yaśasvini | nārī sukham avāpnoti nāryā bhartā hi devatā ||
हे कीर्तिमान, पति की प्रसन्नता से—इस लोक में भी और मृत्यु के बाद भी—स्त्री सुख प्राप्त करती है; क्योंकि पति ही वास्तव में पत्नी का देवता है।
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FAQs
The teaching equates domestic reverence with religious reverence, presenting marital concord as a dharmic means to sukha and auspicious destiny.
Ethical injunction material; not pancalakṣaṇa.
Calling the husband ‘devatā’ functions as a ritual internalization: everyday relationships become the locus where worship-like attitudes (seva, śraddhā) are practiced.