His dear wife saw him deprived of wealth, practising the vow of mendicancy resolved to abstain from inflicting any kind of injury on others, shorn of vanity and prepared to subsist upon a handful of barley fallen off from the stalk.
तं ददर्श प्रिया भार्या भक्ष्यवृत्तिमकिंचनम्। धानामुष्टिमुपासीनं निरीहं गतमत्सरम्॥