CHAPTER I - Homework ( Duties ? ) of a woman when she is the only wife.

A virtuous woman conforms to the desires of her husband as if he was a god. She ( it ? ) always sits down after him and gets up before him (App. 1).

She ( It ? ) takes her ( its ? ) load ( responsibility ? ) of the family and the house. She ( it ? ) holds everything in the biggest state of neatness (App. 2).

She ( It ? ) surrounds the house of a small garden where she ( it ? ) brings all that it is necessary for the morning sacrifices, of noon evening and, to the domestic gods.

She ( It ? ) reveres herself ( itself ? ) the sanctuary of the gods of the home ( foyer ? ) because, as well as said Gonardiya, nothing gains ( wins ? ) the heart of a husband, a host, as the observation of the domestic rites.

She will have all the possible consideration for her father-in-law and her mother-in-law, and for all the members of the family of her husband.

She ( It ? ) avoids the company ( society ? ) of the beggars, _religieuses Buddhists beggars _ [47], lost women, swindlers, fortune-tellers and magicians.

[ Note 47: the words in italic prove that when wrote Vatsyayana the Buddhism was still effective in India.]

She ( It ? ) makes nothing before having obtained the assent from it of her husband (App. 3).

When she ( it ? ) is going to find her husband in particular, she must be adorned with her ornaments and with different flowers and carry ( wear ? ) a dress of several colours. But his ( her;its ? ) common clothing of every day will be light and sticky.

In case he ( it ? ) would have some disadvantages of behaviour ( canal ? ) in his ( its ? ) respect, she ( it ? ) will not make for him ( her ? ) reproaches, in spite of her ( its ? ) displeasure.

She ( It ? ) looks her ( its ? ) holding ( dress ? ) so as to please always her husband.

She ( It ? ) keeps ( guards ? ) her ( its ? ) secrets, lends him ( her ? ) all the possible help in her ( its ? ) business ( cases ? ) when it is obliged to go out for some journey.

She ( It ? ) carries ( wears ? ) only ornaments of good fortune-teller and observes the holidays ( name-days ? ) in honour of the gods. She ( it ? ) goes out only for the bereavements and the family celebrations. She ( it ? ) takes care of the interests of her husband.

When he ( it ? ) arrives of journey, she ( it ? ) receives him ( it ? ) in her ( its ? ) common holding ( dress ? ), so that he ( it ? ) sees how she lived during her absence. She ( it ? ) brings him ( her ? ) some present and objects which can be offered for the cult of the divinity.

It is so, concludes the author, that a woman of a manners, a wife or a remarried virgin, or a common law wife, has to live purely, always devoted to the man with whom she is united, making everything for her good and to please him ( her ? ).

The women who hold this behaviour ( canal ? ) possess Dharma, Artha and Kama, obtain a high consideration and, generally, keep ( preserve ? ) all the love of her husband (App. 4).