Study a Verse

• Because women are easily seduced, the Manu-saṁhitā enjoins that they should not be given freedom.
• If women are given freedom to mingle with men like equals, which they now claim to be, they cannot keep their propriety.
• The nature of a woman, as personally described by Urvaśī, is to establish false friendship with someone and then seek new male companions, one after another, even if this means giving up the company of a sincere well-wisher.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Longing and conflict → Detachment and justice. Dynastic episodes explore personal desire and force.

Chapters 13–17 of Canto 9: Nimi, Purūravā and Paraśurāma. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Chapter 14: King Purūravā Enchanted by Urvaśī

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Purūravā made two sticks from this tree and thus produced a fire. By such a fire one can satisfy all lusty desires.