Famine

 O Muni! After you had gone to practise Tapasyâ, the dire famine raged; and my sons, 

1. exhausted of hunger, became very anxious for food. 
2. I became very anxious to see the sons hungry; 
3. I then went out to the forest in quest of wild rice; and I got some fruits. Thus I spent some months by collecting the rice growing wildly in the forest; then in times these also could not be got and I became again anxious. The Nibâra rice, too, is now not available and nothing is obtained also by begging; there are no fruits on the trees and no roots are found under the earth. The sons are crying in agony of hunger. 
4. What to do? And where to go? What am I to say now to the hungry boys? Oh God! Thus thinking on various ways, I at last came to this conclusion that I would sell one of my sons

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