एवं स्वभरणाकल्पं तत्कलत्रादयस्तथा । नाद्रियन्ते यथापूर्वं कीनाशा इव गोजरम् ॥ १३ ॥
evam sva-bharanakalpam tat-kalatradayas tatha nadriyante yatha purvam kinasa iva go-jaram
- evam
- thus
- sva-bharana
- to maintain them
- akalpam
- unable
- tat
- his
- kalatra
- wife
- adayah
- and so on
- tatha
- so
- na
- not
- adriyante
- do respect
- yatha
- as
- purvam
- before
- kinasah
- farmers
- iva
- like
- go-jaram
- an old ox.
Seeing him unable to support them, his wife and others do not treat him with the same respect as before, even as miserly farmers do not accord the same treatment to their old and worn-out oxen.