Thus commanded by their parent, all the brothers, in a body, began to enjoy the kingdom as their joint property. Seeing those children of the king all jointly enjoying the kingdom as brothers born of the same parents, the king of the gods, filled with anger, began to reflect, by transforming this royal sage into a woman, I have, it appears, done him good instead of an injury:
पुरुषत्वे सुता यूयं स्त्रीत्वे चेमे शतं सुताः। एकत्र भुज्यतां राज्यं भ्रातृभावेन पुत्रकाः॥ सहिता भ्रातरस्तेऽथ राज्यं बुभुजिरे तदा। तान् दृष्ट्वा भ्रातृभावेन भुञ्जानान् राज्यमुत्तमम्॥