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" A wife is half the man, his truest friend; A loving wife is a perpetual spring Of virtue, pleasure, wealth; a faithful wife Is his best aid in seeking heavenly bliss; A sweetly-speaking wife is a companion In solitude, a father in advice, A mother in... "
The Arena - Página 737
1899
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Edições 1-50

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 páginas
...friend, Source of his virtue, pleasure, wealth — the root Whence springs the line of his posterity. A loving wife is a perpetual spring Of virtue, pleasure,...distress ; A rest in passing through life's wilderness.* These are quotations from the great semi-religious poem, the Mahabarata, written about BC 500; but...
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Indian Wisdom, Or, Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and Ethical ...

Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 1875 - 608 páginas
...definition of a wife given in Maha-bharata I. 3028 &c., of which I here offer a nearly literal version : A wife is half the man, his truest friend — A loving...distress ; A rest in passing through life's wilderness. No wonder if, when sentiments like these are found in the sacred literature of India1, a hope is dawning...
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The Trident, the Crescent, and the Cross: A View of the Religious History of ...

James Vaughan - 1876 - 396 páginas
...value a thousand fathers.' The Mahabharat, in describing a wife, says : — A wife is half the man, hia truest friend — A loving wife is a perpetual spring...pleasure, wealth ; — a faithful wife Is his best aid in sceking heavenly bliss ; A sweetly-speaking wife is a companion In solitude ; a father in advice ;...
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The Trident, the Crescent, and the Cross: A View of the Religious History of ...

James Vaughan - 1876 - 424 páginas
...mother,' says he, ' exceeds in value a thousand fathers.' The Mahabharat, in describing a wife, says :— A wife is half the man, his truest friend— A loving wife is a perpetual spring Of virtue, pleasure, wealth;—a faithful wife Is his best aid in seeking heavenly bliss ; A sweetly-speaking wife is a...
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Religious Thought and Life in India: An Account of the Religions of ..., Parte 1

Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 1883 - 582 páginas
...wife given in Maha-bharata I. 3038, etc., of which the following is a nearly literal version : — A wife is half the man, his truest friend ; A loving...distress, A rest in passing through life's wilderness. CHAPTER XV. Religious Life of the Orthodox Hindu ffouse/tolder. LET me next direct attention to the...
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Christian Thought, Volume 5

1888 - 492 páginas
...The mother is worth a thousand fathers," or to read to them from one of their great epic poems : " A wife is half the man, — his truest friend, A loving...faithful wife is his best aid In seeking heavenly bliss." May it not be of some avail to show them that the early Vedic faith exalted the domestic virtues and...
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India's Women, Volume 7

1887 - 366 páginas
...describe the position and character of a wife in ancient times, perhaps more than 2000 years ago ? — ' A wife is half the man, his truest friend — A loving...distress, A rest in passing through life's wilderness. ' Every Indian husband, then, should restore his wife to the old ideal ; and I am glad to say that...
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Turbans and Tails: Or, Sketches in the Unromantic East

Alfred J. Bamford - 1888 - 336 páginas
...strange contrast also to the modern opinion «f women in India is this passage, from the Mahahharata— " A wife is half the man, his truest friend— A loving...distress, A rest in passing through life's wilderness." In the Mahabharata again, figures " Draupadi, with her dark skin and lotus-eyes—the faithful Draupadi,...
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Papers on Indian Reform: Sanitary, Material, Social, Moral and Religious

1889 - 854 páginas
...curse. The Mahabharata thus describes the position and character of an Indian wife in ancient times : "A wife is half the man, his truest friend — A loving...distress ; A rest in passing through life's wilderness." It has been admitted that, even at present, Hindu marriages yield a certain amount of domestic happiness;...
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Hindu Literature, Or, The Ancient Books of India

Elizabeth Armstrong Reed - 1890 - 440 páginas
...claimed were written during the Christian era, contains the following tribute to the faithful wife : " A wife is half the man, his truest friend. A loving...wife Is his best aid in seeking heavenly bliss. A sweetly speaking wife is a companion In solitude ; a father in advice ; A mother in all seasons of...
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