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In the Harivamsha Purana, it is said that women experience various kinds of suffering (vidukh). Firstly, they are subject to dependence (paratantraya), which is a specific kind of suffering. Then, when their husbands are difficult to obtain, they consider their bodies as empty and useless (vidukh). They also suffer from having co-wives (sapatni), being menstruating (pushpavasva), being barren (vandhya), being widowed (vaidhavya), experiencing illness during childbirth (sutir-roga), being blind (andha), being unfortunate (daurbhagya), having an unfortunate husband (bhagya-hina), having only daughters (stri-garbhatva), having repeated miscarriages (marta-patye), being completely orphaned (anatha), conceiving (garma-nava), being separated from their husbands while they are still alive (jivana-viyoga), or suffering from a fatal disease (marma-roga).
Just as the threads (tantu) that are horizontal and vertical are the independent causes of a cloth, so too is false perception (mithyatva) the independent cause of being a woman. Therefore, those who are worthy of being served (sevya-sattva) should serve the right perception (samyag-darshan), which ends the suffering related to women.
Thus ends the fifty-fifth chapter (sarga) of the Harivamsha Purana, composed by Jinasena Acharya, which includes the collection of the Arishtanemi Purana, and describes the auspicious initiation (diksha-kalyana) of the Lord.