care for them at any cost

 

वृद्धौ च मातापितरौ साध्वी भार्या सुतः शिशुः।

अप्यकार्यशतं कृत्वा भर्तव्या मनुरब्रवीत्॥

इन्दिश्चे स्प्रुचे २८९२ मनुस्स्मृति ११ १० विक्रमाङ्कदेवचरिते

vṛddhau ca mātāpitarau sādhvī bhāryā sutaḥ śiśuḥ|

apyakāryaśataṁ kṛtvā bhartavyā manurabravīt||

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A man should, at any cost, protect and maintain his elderly parents, infirm and sick father, mother, or both, the faithful wife who depends on him for her very existence and an infant child in the household. He should ensure that he provides food and essential things for their survival even if he has to perpetrate unlawful or evil deeds or activities in his bid to find means for such sustenance. Thus said Manu

Manu does not encourage performance of sinful activities here. He only underlines the supreme importance of the duty of every man to look after with capacity to earn to ensure that those who depend on him exclusively-- like old parents, wife and small children

K V ANANTHANARAYANAN

वृद्धौ elderly, old, sick, infirm मातापितरौ parents, father and moterh साध्वी faithful, pious, भार्या wife शिशुः very little, in infacy, in childhood सुतः son अकार्यशतं hundreds of evild deeds, prohibited deed कृत्वा having done अपि too भर्तव्या should be fed इति मनुः अब्रवीत् thus said Manu.