Knowing that his chaste wife who said so, was herself stricken with hunger, that best of Brahmanas could not approve of her share of the powdered barley being given to the guest.
इति ब्रुवन्तीं तां साध्वी भार्यां स द्विजसत्तमः। क्षुधापरिगतां ज्ञात्वा तान् सक्तून् नाभ्यनन्दत॥