My motive was this. Exhausted with toil and hunger you two would be angry with me and do what would be unpleasant to me. It was from this motive that I caused yourself and your wife to be afflicted with hunger.
क्षुधितौ मामसूयेथां श्रमाद् वेति नराधिप। एवं बुद्धिं समास्थाय कर्शितौ वां क्षुधा मया।॥