The story runs that his two wives were in the family way; and that with the intention of destroying the embryo of the other, one of them administered poison to the former mixed in her food.
असितोऽल्पबलो राजा कालधर्ममुपेयिवान्। द्वे चास्य भार्ये गर्भिण्यौ बभूवतुरिति श्रुतिः॥ एका गर्भविनाशार्थं सपत्न्यै सगरं ददौ।