With their milk and the Havi produced therefrom, they sustain all creatures. Their male children are engaged in helping the cultivation and thereby produce various kinds of paddy and other seeds.
धारयन्ति प्रजाश्चैव पयसा हविषा तथा। एतासां तनयाश्चापि कृषियोगमुपासते॥ जनयन्ति च धान्यानि बीजानि विविधानि च।