 For my mother often taught me and my father often spake, That her home the wedded woman doth beside her husband make, As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not from her consort till she parts with fleeting life!  Ramayana: The Epic of Rama, Prince of India - Page 13by Vālmīki - 1900 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 1076 pages
...taught 1110 and my father often spake, That her home the wedded woman doth beside her husband make, As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not from her consort till she parts with fleeting life ! Therefore bid me seek the jungle... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1900 - 500 pages
...often taught me and my father often spake, That her home the wedded woman doth beside her husband make, As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not from her consort till she parts with fleeting life ! Therefore bid me seek the jungle... | |
 | Vālmīki - 1899 - 208 pages
...often taught me and my father often spake, That her home the wedded woman doth beside her husband make, As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not from her consort till she parts with fleeting life ! Therefore bid me seek the jungle... | |
 | 1903 - 984 pages
...exaggerations, her standards of life and conduct are such as Indian women very generally maintain — " As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not from her consort, till she parts with fleeting life." And women have in fact their... | |
 | 1905 - 848 pages
...often taught me and my father often spake, That her home the wedded woman doth beside her husband make, As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not from her consort till she parts with fleeting life I Therefore bid me seek the jungle... | |
 | 1911 - 200 pages
...passed over the status of the wife, and in the words spoken by the bride's father on her marriage:* " As the shadow to the substance, to her Lord is faithful wife, And my Sita, best of women, follows thee in death and life," we surely hear the first priestly mutterings... | |
 | George Howells - 1913 - 926 pages
...taught me, and my father often spake, That her home, the wedded woman doth beside her husband make ; As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not from her consort till she parts with fleeting life. Therefore bid me seek the jungle,... | |
 | John Nicol Farquhar - 1913 - 496 pages
...There is a line in the Rdmayana which gives beautiful expression to the Hindu idea of wifely loyalty: As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife.' Yet how vividly it expresses also her hopeless inferiority. The idea is, not that the married relation... | |
 | Milly Cattell - 1916 - 122 pages
...me, and • my father often spake That her home the wedded 'woman doth » beside her husband make. As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not with her consort till she parts with fleeting life." 2 •Changes had been creeping... | |
 | Frank Ernest Keay - 1918 - 200 pages
...often taught me and my father often spake That her home the wedded woman doth beside her husband make, As the shadow to the substance, to her lord is faithful wife, And she parts not from her consort till she parts with fleeting life. Years will pass in happy union,... | |
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