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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.46

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 46

परस्त्रीलक्षणम्Who is another's wife

Verse 46

परिणीतास्तु या नार्यो ब्राह्मैर्वा शैववर्त्मभिः । ता एव दारा विज्ञेया अन्याः सर्वाः परस्त्रियः ॥ ४६ ॥

pariṇītāstu yā nāryō brāhmairvā śaivavartmabhiḥ | tā ēva dārā vijñēyā anyāḥ sarvāḥ parastriyaḥ || 46 ||

Translation

The women married by the brāhma or the Śaiva way: they alone are to be known as one's wives; all others are the wives of others.

Word by word

pariṇītāḥ
(pariṇītāḥ) married
tu
and
yāḥ
(yāḥ) who
nāryaḥ
(nāryaḥ) women
brāhmaiḥ
(brāhmaiḥ) by the brāhma
vā
or
śaiva
Śaiva
vartmabhiḥ
(vartmabhiḥ) by the ways
tāḥ
(tāḥ) they
ēva
alone
dārāḥ
(dārāḥ) wives
vijñēyāḥ
(vijñeyāḥ) are to be known
anyāḥ
(anyāḥ) others
sarvāḥ
(sarvāḥ) all
para
of others
striyaḥ
(striyaḥ) wives

Meaning

A definition used in the verses that follow: only a wife married by either rite is one's own.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Now, since in the verses told and to come one's own wife and another's are in question, he defines one's own wife and another's with "pariṇītāḥ" and the rest. The women who have been married, wedded, by the brāhma paths, the Vedic procedure, or by the Śaiva paths, Śiva's procedure: they alone are to be known as one's wives; all others, other than these, are to be known as others' wives.