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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 20]
tasmāt putra iti proktaḥ svayam eva svayambhuvā
Because a son delivers his father from punishment in the hell called  put , the son is called  putra . According to this principle, when there is a disagreement between the father and mother, it is the father, not the mother, who is delivered by the son. But if the wife is faithful and firmly adherent to her husband, when the father is delivered the mother is also delivered. Consequently, there is no such thing as divorce in the Vedic literature. A wife is always trained to be chaste and faithful to her husband, for this helps her achieve deliverance from any abominable material condition. This verse clearly says,  putro nayati naradeva yamakṣayāt : “The son saves his father from the custody of Yamarāja.” It never says,  putro nayati mātaram : “The son saves his mother.” The seed-giving father is delivered, not the storekeeper mother. Consequently, husband and wife should not separate under any condition, for if they have a child whom they raise to be a Vaiṣṇava, he can save both the father and mother from the custody of Yamarāja and punishment in hellish life.
TEXT 23
पितयुपरते सोऽपि चक्रवर्ती महायशः । महिमा गीयते तस्य हरेरंशभ्रवो भ्रुवि ॥२३॥
pitary uparate so 'pi cakravartī mahā-yaśāḥ mahimā gīyate tasya harer aṁśa-bhuvo bhuvi
pitari —after his father;  uparate —passed away;  saḥ —the King’s son;  api —also;  cakravartī —the emperor;  mahā-yaśāḥ —very famous;  mahimā —glories;  gīyate —are glorified;  tasya —his;  hareḥ —of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  aṁśa-bhuvaḥ —a partial representation;  bhuvi —upon this earth.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: When Mahārāja Duṣmanta passed away from this earth, his son became the emperor of the world, the