The Hungry Crowd Opens the Granaries

From D12.6, Qobad Adopts the Faith of Mazdak. It illustrates D12.6.31–36:

D12.6.31
When Mazdak heard, he kissed the royal ground,Then stood before the hungry crowd around.
D12.6.32
He cried, “Go to the grain-stores; take your share,And save yourselves from famine and despair.
D12.6.33
If owners ask its value, pay in gold;Let none die hungry while the stores still hold.”
D12.6.34
His own supplies of grain he freely gave,That all the hungry folk he thus might save.
D12.6.35
Then all the starving people rushed for grain,And plundered every store to ease their pain.
D12.6.36
The citizens’ and Qobad’s stores they seized,And through the plunder hunger’s pangs were eased.