Verse 46

⁴²He asked his son Puru, younger in years and better in his qualities: You should not turn me away, child, as your elder brothers have. ⁴³Lord of men, what man in the world is able to pay back the father who made him, by whose kindness he finds what is highest? ⁴⁴The best son does what is only thought of; the middling one does what is spoken; the worst does it without any trust in it; and one who does not do it is his father's excrement. ⁴⁵So Puru gladly took his father's old age on himself; and with those years of his the king enjoyed the objects of desire as he pleased, king. ⁴⁶Lord of the seven islands, guarding his people rightly, as a father does, he enjoyed the things of sense as far as he liked them, with his senses under no check.