Her avaricious and foolish sons, Gautama and his brothers, exclaimed, “Why should we support this blind old man?” Thus thinking, those wicked men tied him on a raft and threw him into the Ganges. They then returned home.
लोभमोहाभिभूतास्ते पुत्रास्तं गौतमादयः। बध्वोडुपे परिक्षिप्य गङ्गायां समवासृजन्॥ कस्मादन्धश्च वृद्धश्च भर्तव्योऽयमिति स्म ते। चिन्तयित्वा ततः क्रूराः प्रतिजग्मुरथो गृहान्॥