While the matron was cleansing the vessel for giving the alms, then, her husband entered the house all of a sudden. O foremost of the Bharata race, oppressed with great hunger.
शौचं तु यावत् कुरुते भाजनस्य कुटुम्बिनी। एतस्मिन्नन्तरे राजन् क्षुधासम्पीडितो भृशम्॥