Text 22] The Marriage of Sukanyā and Cyavana Muni
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you are shamelessly maintaining a paramour? You will thus degrade the dynasties of both your father and your husband to hellish life.
PURPORT
It is quite clear that according to Vedic culture a woman who accepts a paramour or second husband in the presence of the husband she has married is certainly responsible for the degradation of her father's family and the family of her husband. The rules of Vedic culture in this regard are strictly observed in the respectable families of  brāhmaṇas ,  kṣatriyas  and  vaiśyas  even today; only the  śūdras  are degraded in this matter. For a woman of the  brāhmaṇa ,  kṣatriya  or  vaiśya  class to accept another husband in the presence of the husband she has married, or to file for divorce or accept a boyfriend or paramour, is unacceptable in the Vedic culture. Therefore King Śaryāti, who did not know the real facts of Cyavana Muni's transformation, was surprised to see the behavior of his daughter.
TEXT 22
एवं ब्रुवाणं पितरं सयमाना शुचिसिता । उवाच तात जामाता तवैष भृगुनन्दनः ॥२२॥
evam bruvāṇam pitaram smayamānā śuci-smitā uvāca tāta jāmātā tavaiṣa bhṛgu-nandanaḥ
evam —in this way;  bruvāṇam —who was talking and chastising her;  pitaram —unto her father;  smayamānā —smiling (because she was chaste);  śuci-smitā —laughingly;  uvāca —replied;  tāta —O my dear father;  jāmātā —son-in-law;  tava —your;  eṣaḥ —this young man;  bhṛgu-nandanaḥ —is Cyavana Muni (and no one else).
TRANSLATION
Sukanyā, however, being very proud of her chastity, smiled upon hearing the rebukes of her father. She smilingly told him,