तामात्मनो विजानीयात्पत्यपत्यगृहात्मकम् । दैवोपसादितं मृत्युं मृगयोर्गायनं यथा ॥ ४२ ॥
tam atmano vijaniyat paty-apatya-grhatmakam daivopasaditam mrtyum mrgayor gayanam yatha
- tam
- the Lord’s maya
- atmanah
- of herself
- vijaniyat
- she should know
- pati
- husband
- apatya
- children
- grha
- house
- atmakam
- consisting of
- daiva
- by the authority of the Lord
- upasaditam
- brought about
- mrtyum
- death
- mrgayoh
- of the hunter
- gayanam
- the singing
- yatha
- as.
A woman, therefore, should consider her husband, her house and her children to be the arrangement of the external energy of the Lord for her death, just as the sweet singing of the hunter is death for the deer.