The Father-in-law said-O you of excellent vows and conduct, seeing you wasted by wind and sun, deprived of your very complexion, emaciated, and almost destitute of consciousness through hunger, how can I be such a transgressor against the rules of virtue as to take your share of the barley? O auspicious damsel, you should not say so, for the sake of those auspicious results for which every family must try.
श्वशुर उवाच वातातपविशीर्णाङ्गी त्वां विवर्णो निरीक्ष्य वै। कर्षितां सुव्रताचारे क्षुधविह्वलचेतसम्॥ कथं सक्तून् ग्रहन्यामि भूत्वा धर्मोपघातकः। कल्याणवृत्ते कल्याणि नैवं त्वं वक्तुमर्हसि॥