बाल्ये पितुर् वशे तिष्ठेत् पाणिग्राहस्य यौवने । पुत्राणां भर्तरि प्रेते न भजेत् स्त्री स्वतन्त्रताम् ॥
bālye pitur vaśe tiṣṭhet pāṇigrāhasya yauvane | putrāṇāṃ bhartari prete na bhajet strī svatantratām ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be indejDencjejjt.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.