न दानं न तपोऽत्युग्रं न यागो हवनं न हि ।। अनावृष्टिस्ततो जाता पृथिव्यां शतवार्षिकी ।। ६।।
None offered charitable gifts; none performed penances; there was neither worship nor sacrifice. Then a great drought befell the earth extending to a period of a hundred years.