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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 13]
intelligent men are more concerned with the eternal sky with all its variegatedness.
TEXT 30
पतिं प्रयान्तं सुबलस्य पुत्री 
    पतिव्रता चानुजगाम साध्वी । 
    हिमालयं न्यस्तदण्डप्रहर्षं 
    मनस्विनामिव सत्सम्प्रहारः ॥३०॥
patim prayāntam subalasya putrī  
 pati-vratā cānujagāma sādhvī  
 himālayam nyasta-daṇḍa-praharṣam  
 manasvinām iva sat samprahāraḥ
patim —her husband;  prayāntam —while leaving home;  subalasya —of King Subala;  putrī —worthy daughter;  pati-vratā —devoted to her husband;  ca —also;  anujagāma —followed;  sādhvī —the chaste;  himālayam —towards the Himalayan mountains;  nyasta-daṇḍa —one who has accepted the rod of the renounced order;  praharṣam —object of delight;  manasvinām —of the great fighters;  iva —like;  sat —legitimate;  samprahāraḥ —good lashing.
TRANSLATION
Gāndhārī, who was the daughter of King Subala of Kandahara [or Gandhara], followed her husband, seeing that he was going to the Himalayan mountains, which are the delight of those who have accepted the staff of the renounced order like fighters who have accepted a good lashing from the enemy.
PURPORT
Saubalinī or Gāndhārī, daughter of King Subala and wife of King Dhṛtarāṣṭra, was ideal as a devoted wife to her husband. The Vedic civilization especially prepares chaste and devoted wives, of whom Gāndhārī is one amongst many mentioned in history. Lakṣmījī Sītādevī was also a daughter of a great king, but she followed her husband Lord Rāmacandra into the forest. Similarly, as a woman she could remain at home or at her father's house, but as a chaste and gentle lady she followed her husband