At a certain city there were a poor woman and a man. Because the
two persons had not [anything] to eat and to wear, the woman having
pounded and pounded [paddy] obtained a livelihood.
When not much time had gone in this manner, being unable to pound
and eat, her strength and ability [to work] went. Thereupon she one
day having beaten the man with the broom, [204] and having said,
"Strumpet's son, bring thou from somewhere or other things for food,"
seized him by the hair-knot, and cast him out of the door-way.
Then the man, through shame at what the woman had done, having gone
along a road and sat down at a tree, when the time for eating rice
came, wept.
Thereupon, the Devatawa who stayed in that tree came and asked at
the hand of the man, "Bola, what art thou crying for?"
Then this man says, "O Lord, my wife having become without strength
or ability [to work], because we two were unable to obtain [anything]
having beaten me with the broom, seized me by the hair-knot and put
me outside. Having come [here] owing to it, because I cannot bear my
hunger I wept."