Indeed, that best of Brahmanas endued with learning, knowing from his own state that his aged, toil-worn, cheerless, and helpless wife was herself afflicted by hunger, and seeing that lady who had been emaciated into mere skin and bones, was quivering with weakness, addressed her and said, 'O beautiful one, with even animals, with even worms and insects, wives are fed and protected. You should not, therefore, say so. The wife treats her husband with kindness and feeds and protects him.
आत्मानुमायो विद्वान् स तु विप्रर्षभस्तदा। जानन् वृद्धां क्षुधा” च श्रान्तां ग्लानां तपस्विनीम्।४४ त्वगस्थिभूतां वेपन्तीं ततो भार्यामुवाच ह। अपि कीटपतङ्गानां मृगाणां चैव शोभने॥ स्त्रियो रक्ष्याश्च पोषयाश्च न त्वेवं वक्तुमर्हसि। अनुकम्प्यो नरः पल्या पुष्टो रक्षित एव च॥