Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4774

c9.4774

12) Stealing the flesh of a dog. Once, at the end of Tretā Yuga and the beginning of Dvāpara Yuga, there was no rain for twelve years. Famine prevailed everywhere. The people were in utter want and misery. Hermits left their hermitages and wandered about. In a crowd Viśvāmitra lost his wife and children and entered a forest and travelled all alone. He entered the hut of a low-caste (Paraya) and begged for food. But none of them even talked to him. He again requested for something to eat. Nobody cared for him. The hermit fell on the veranda due to weakness.