Matsyapurana 21.7

21.7

ko nu dharmo 'tra bhavitā mattyāgādgatireva vā
ūcuste kalpitā vṛttis tava tāta vadasva tat //

Sudaridra felt very miserable when he came to know of the resolution of his sons and in a very plaintive tone asked them the reason of their doing so. He tried his best to dissuade his sons from doing that and said that to repair to forest leaving an aged father behind in a helpless condition was no virtue, and what would be their fate for doing that act. Hearing those words of their old and infirm father they said that he should not stand in their way and that God had made ample provision for his subsistence. By reading the following śloka before his king he would get plenty of money and villages.—5-8.