इहलोके च पितृभिर्या स्त्री यस्य महाबल। अद्भिर्दत्ता स्वधर्मेण प्रेत्यभावेऽपि तस्य सा॥
ihaloke ca pitṛbhiryā strī yasya mahābala| adbhirdattā svadharmeṇa pretyabhāve'pi tasya sā||
English Meaning
She, who has been given away as wife by her father to one, with due rites of gift peculiar to each class, touching holy water, shall be his, even in her after life.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)