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)