तस्मात्पतिव्रता नार्य: श्रेयस्कामा: सुमध्यमे । यजन्तेऽनन्यभावेन पतिमात्मानमीश्वरम् ॥ ३५ ॥
tasmat pati-vrata naryah sreyas-kamah sumadhyame yajante ’nanya-bhavena patim atmanam isvaram
- tasmat
- therefore
- pati-vratah
- devoted to the husband
- naryah
- women
- sreyah-kamah
- conscientious
- su-madhyame
- O thin-waisted woman
- yajante
- worship
- ananya-bhavena
- with devotion
- patim
- the husband
- atmanam
- the Supersoul
- isvaram
- representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
My dear wife, whose body is so beautiful, your waist being thin, a conscientious wife should be chaste and should abide by the orders of her husband. She should very devoutly worship her husband as a representative of Vasudeva.