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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 33]
PURPORT
The ideal husband and wife relationship is very nicely described in this statement. Kardama Muni gave Devahūti all sorts of comforts in his duty as a husband, but he was not at all attached to his wife. As soon as his son Kapiladeva was grown up, Kardama at once left all family connection. Similarly, Devahūti was the daughter of a great king, Svāyambhuva Manu, and was qualified and beautiful, but she was completely dependent on the protection of her husband. According to Manu, women, the fair sex, should not have independence at any stage of life. In childhood a woman must be under the protection of the parents, in youth she must be under the protection of the husband, and in old age she must be under the protection of the grown-up children. Devahūti demonstrated all these statements of the  Manu-saṁhitā  in her life: as a child she was dependent on her father, later she was dependent on her husband, in spite of her opulence, and she was later on dependent on her son Kapiladeva.
TEXT 20
हित्वा तदीप्सिततममप्यास्त्रण्डलयोषिताम् । किञ्चिच्चकार वदनं पुत्रविश्लेषणातुरा ॥२०॥
hitvā tad īpsitatamam apy ākhaṇḍala-yoṣitām kiñcic cakāra vadanaṁ putra-viśleṣaṇāturā
hitvā —having given up;  tat —that household;  īpsita-tamam —most desirable;  api —even;  ākhaṇḍala-yoṣitām —by the wives of Lord Indra;  kiñcit cakāra vadanam —she wore a sorry look on her face;  putra-viśleṣaṇa —by separation from her son;  āturā —afflicted.
TRANSLATION
Although her position was unique from all points of view, saintly Devahūti, in spite of all her possessions, which were envied even by the ladies of the heavenly planets, gave up all such comforts. She was only sorry that her great son was separated from her.