Verse 26

²⁶By sweeping and smearing, by adorning the house and putting it in order; herself always adorned, and her things kept clean; ²⁷a good wife, with the things he wants, large and small, with modesty and self-restraint, with words true and pleasant, with love, should attend on her husband at every hour. ²⁸Content, not greedy, capable, knowing dharma, speaking pleasantly and truly, not careless, clean, tender: she should attend on a husband who has not fallen. ²⁹A woman who attends on her husband as though he were Hari, given to him as Sri is, is glad in Hari's world with a husband whose self is Hari's, as Sri is. ³⁰The living of the mixed births is whatever each of their families has made, for those who are not thieves and not wicked, from the last-born to those who live at the edge.