Many persons with strong desire for children, and cheerless on that account, after sacrificing to many gods and practising severe austerities, at last beget children, duly borne for ten long months, that prove to be veritable wretches of their race.
देवानिष्ट्वा तपस्तप्त्वा कृपणैः पुत्रगृद्धिभिः। दश मासान् परिधृता जायन्ते कुलपांसनाः॥