Ätma-vá¹›ttam avijñÄya
katthase bahu bhiká¹£uki
kiá¹ na pratÄ«ká¹£ase 'smÄkaá¹
gá¹›hÄn balibhujo yathÄ
Ätma-vá¹›ttam - one's own position; avijñÄya - without understanding; katthase - you are talking madly; bahu - so much; bhiká¹£uki - beggar; kim - whether; na - not; pratÄ«ká¹£ase - you wait; asmÄkam - our; gá¹›hÄn - at the house; balibhujaḥ - crows; yathÄ - like.
Crows have no independent life; they fully depend on the remnants of foodstuffs thrown by householders into the garbage tank. Therefore, because a brÄhmaṇa depends on his disciples, when Åšarmiá¹£á¹hÄ was heavily rebuked by DevayÄnÄ« she charged DevayÄnÄ« with belonging to a family of crowlike beggars. It is the nature of women to fight verbally at even a slight provocation. As we see from this incident, this has been their nature for a long, long time.