Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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5.160. A virtuous wife who after the death of her husband constantly remains chaste, reaches heaven, though
she have no son, just like those chaste men.
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5.161. But a woman who from a desire to have offspring violates her duty towards her (deceased) husband,
brings on herself disgrace in this world, and loses her place with her husband (in heaven).
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5.162. Offspring begotten by another man is here not (considered lawful), nor (does offspring begotten) on
another man’s wife (belong to the begetter), nor is a second husband anywhere prescribed for virtuous women.
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5.163. She who cohabits with a man of higher caste, forsaking her own husband who belongs to a lower one,
will become contemptible in this world, and is called a remarried woman (parapurva).
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5.164. By violating her duty towards her husband, a wife is disgraced in this world, (after death) she enters the
womb of a jackal, and is tormented by diseases (the punishment of) her sin.
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5.165. She who, controlling her thoughts, words, and deeds, never slights her lord, resides (after death) with her
husband (in heaven), and is called a virtuous (wife).
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5.166. In reward of such conduct, a female who controls her thoughts, speech, and actions, gains in this (life)
highest renown, and in the next (world) a place near her husband.
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5.167. A twice-born man, versed in the sacred law, shall burn a wife of equal caste who conducts herself thus
and dies before him, with (the sacred fires used for) the Agnihotra, and with the sacrificial implements.
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5.168. Having thus, at the funeral, given the sacred fires to his wife who dies before him, he may marry again,
and again kindle (the fires).
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5.169. (Living) according to the (preceding) rules, he must never neglect the five (great) sacrifices, and, having
taken a wife, he must dwell in (his own) house during the second period of his life.