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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 3]
Nonetheless, her father expected her to be faithful to her husband. When he suddenly saw that his daughter had accepted someone else, even though the man was young and handsome, he immediately chastised her as  asatī , unchaste, because he assumed that she had accepted another man in the presence of her husband. According to Vedic culture, even if a young woman is given an old husband, she must respectfully serve him. This is chastity. It is not that because she dislikes her husband she may give him up and accept another. This is against Vedic culture. According to Vedic culture, a woman must accept the husband given to her by her parents and remain chaste and faithful to him. Therefore King Śaryāti was surprised to see a young man by the side of Sukanyā.
TEXT 21
कथं मतिस्तेऽवगतान्यथा सतां 
  कुलप्रस्रते कुलदूषणं त्विदम् । 
  विभर्षि जारं यदपत्रपा कुलं 
  पितुश्च भर्तुश्च नयस्यधस्तमः ॥२१॥
kathaṁ matis te 'vagatānyathā satāṁ 
  kula-prasūte kula-dūṣaṇaṁ tv idam 
  bibharṣi jāraṁ yad apatrapā kulaṁ 
  pituś ca bhartuś ca nayasy adhas tamaḥ
katham—how; matiḥ te—your consciousness; avagatā—has gone down; anyathā—otherwise; satām—of the most respectable; kula-prasūte—O my daughter, born in the family; kula-dūṣaṇaṁ—who are the degradation of the family; tu—but; idam—this; bibharṣi—you are maintaining; jāraṁ—a paramour; yat—as it is; apatrapā—without shame; kulam—the dynasty; pituḥ—of your father; ca—and; bhartuḥ—of your husband; ca—and; nayasi—you are bringing down; adhaḥ tamaḥ—downward into darkness or hell.
TRANSLATION
O my daughter, who were born in a respectable family, how have you degraded your consciousness in this way? How is it that