An ideal Indian wife

Karyeshu daasi -- she should serve you like a slave
Karaneshu mantri -- she should counsel you like a minister
Bhojyeshu maatu -- she should feed you like a mother
Sayaneshu Ramba -- she should give you sexual pleasures like Ramba – a celestial nymph

~An ideal Indian wife according to Manu in his book of rules, Manushastra.

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An ideal Indian wife is
like a slave to her husband

waiting on him hand and foot
every single day and night

she is a councilor to him
whenever he’s in troubled times

she is a mother to him
feeding him food all the times

she is a lady who gives him
sexual pleasures all the times

like the nymph Ramba in heaven
the most beautiful, the most desirable

of all the nymphs in the heaven
giving pleasures to gods all the times