Those persons who become attached to sons and wives and relatives meet with destruction in the end, as wild elephants sunk in the mire of a lake are by and by weakened till overtaken by Death,
पुत्रदारकुटुम्बेषु सक्ताः सीदन्ति जन्तवः। सर:पङ्कार्णवे मग्ना जीर्णा वनगजा इव॥