He began to help the relatives and kinsmen of the female slave the robber-chief gave him. Thus he lived for many years in that prosperous village of hunters.
कुटुम्बार्थं च दास्याश्च साहाय्यं चाप्यथाकरोत्। तत्रावसत् स वर्षांश्च समृद्धे शबरालये॥