Chapter 39 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 39

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 39.19

असत्यः सर्वलोकेऽस्मिन् सततं सत्कृताः प्रियैः। भर्तारं नानुमन्यन्ते विनिपातगतं स्त्रियः॥

asatyaḥ sarvaloke'smin satataṃ satkṛtāḥ priyaiḥ| bhartāraṃ nānumanyante vinipātagataṃ striyaḥ||

English Meaning

Those women that although having always been carefully tended by their husbands, do not regard them during the incident of adversity, are in this world reckoned as unchaste.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)