Verse 5
How she waited on him· Verses 1–5
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1When her parents had gone, the good woman, who could read his least sign, waited on her husband every day with love, as Bhavani waits on Bhava her lord. 2With trust, with cleanness of self, with reverence and self-restraint, with service and with warmth of heart, and with sweet speech, sir, 3letting go desire and pretence, hatred, greed, wrongdoing and pride, alert and always ready, she pleased that man of great fire. 4That best among the sages of the gods saw the daughter of Manu keeping faith with him, hoping for great gifts from a husband weightier than fate, 5and worn thin over long time, wasted by the keeping of her vows. Struck with pity, his voice breaking with love, he said: