Shloka 59
चित्रसेन-समागमः / The Engagement with Citrasena and the Gandharvas
एतज्जानाम्यहं कर्तु भर्त॒संवननं महत् | असत्स्त्रीणां समाचार नाहं कुर्या न कामये,“पतिको वशमें करनेका यही सबसे महत्त्वपूर्ण उपाय मैं जानती हूँ। दुराचारिणी स्त्रियाँ जिन उपायोंका अवलम्बन करती हैं, उन्हें न तो मैं करती हूँ और न चाहती ही हूँ”
etaj jānāmy ahaṃ kartuṃ bhartṛ-saṃvananaṃ mahat | asat-strīṇāṃ samācāraṃ nāhaṃ kuryā na kāmaye ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “This, indeed, I know to be the great means of winning over one’s husband. But the practices resorted to by immoral women—I neither adopt them nor do I desire them.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse contrasts righteous, principled means of harmonizing marital life with the unethical tactics attributed to immoral conduct, affirming a commitment to virtue and self-restraint even when seeking influence or reconciliation.
In Vaiśampāyana’s narration, a woman’s stance is reported: she acknowledges a ‘great’ proper method for winning her husband’s goodwill, while explicitly rejecting the questionable practices associated with immoral women.