उद्वाहितानां पत्नीनां ये न कुर्वन्ति सेवनम् । या निष्ठा जायते नृणां तां शृणुष्व नराधिप
udvāhitānāṃ patnīnāṃ ye na kurvanti sevanam | yā niṣṭhā jāyate nṛṇāṃ tāṃ śṛṇuṣva narādhipa
جو مرد اپنی بیاہی ہوئی بیویوں کے ساتھ واجب ازدواجی دھرم ادا نہیں کرتے، اے نرادھپ! اُن کے لیے جو قطعی انجام (نِشٹھا) پیدا ہوتا ہے، وہ سنو۔
Mārkaṇḍeya
Listener: Narādhipa (king; dialogue frame with Yudhiṣṭhira)
Scene: Mārkaṇḍeya, calm but firm, addresses the king: a didactic tableau showing a householder neglecting his wife in the background as a cautionary vignette, contrasted with a harmonious couple as the ideal.
Householder duties are treated as dharma; neglect is said to bring an inevitable moral and karmic outcome.
The verse is didactic within the Somnātha-centered narrative frame of the Revā Khaṇḍa.
No specific rite; it frames a dharma-instruction regarding marital conduct.