4. Some of these emigrants were devoured by tigers, as they went out of their houses; as unfledged birds are caught by falcons, as they come out of their nests.
5. Some entered into the fire like moths, to put an end to their miserable lives; others fell into the pits, like fragments of rocks falling from the hills.
6. I separated myself from the connections of my father-in-law and others; and depending upon myself, I escaped narrowly from that distressed country, with my wife and children about me.
7. We passed the pit-falls and storms, and the wild beasts and snakes, without any harm; and came out of that forest safe from all the deadly perils of the way.
8. Having then arrived at the border of that forest, we got to the shade of some palm trees, where I lay down my children from my shoulders as burdens of my sin and woes.[[11]]
9. I halted here after my tiresome journey and lengthened troubles, as one who had fled from the confines of hell; and took my rest like the withering lotus, from the scorching sun-beams and heat of summer.
10. My Chandála wife also slept under the same tree, and my two boys lay fast asleep in each other’s embrace, under the cooling shade.
11. Afterwards my younger son Prach’chhaka, who was as dear to us as he was the less intelligent, rose up and stood before me.
12. He said with a depressed spirit, and tears gushing out of his eyes, “Papa give me soon some meat-food and drink or else I die”.
13. The little boy repeatedly made the same request, and said with tears in his eyes, that he was dying of hunger.