Verse 4

⁴Has no harm come now to the brahmins, good woman, nor to dharma, nor to this world of people that goes wherever death chooses? ⁵Or has something gone amiss in the house, keeper of the household, where dharma and wealth and desire are joined together for those who have no yoga? ⁶Or have guests come and gone away from the house unhonoured, without even your rising to meet them, because you were caught up in your own family? ⁷In houses where guests are not honoured, not even with water, if such guests go away, those houses are surely like the den of a jackal king. ⁸Or were the fires not fed with the offering at their hour, true wife, by you with your mind uneasy, good woman, at some time when I was away?

⁹By the honouring of these a householder goes to the worlds that give what is wished for. The brahmin and the fire are the mouth of Visnu, who is the self of all the gods. ¹⁰And are your sons all well, thoughtful woman? By the signs upon you I make out that you are not well in yourself.