Considering that to be virtue, those youths possessing sufficient resources desired to live as Brahmacharins, having abandoned their brothers and fathers. It so happened that Indra felt pity for them.
धर्मोऽयमिति मन्वानाः समृद्धा ब्रह्मचारिणः। त्यक्त्वा भ्रातृन् पिढेश्चैव तानिन्द्रोऽन्वकृपायत॥