The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 13.79.17

13.79.17

bhīṣma uvāca |
paramidamiti bhūmipo vicintya pravaramṛṣervacanaṃ tato mahātmā |
vyasṛjata niyatātmavāndvijebhyaḥ subahu ca godhanamāptavāṃśca lokān || 17 ||

"Bhishma continued, 'That high-souled giver of land (viz., king Saudasa), thinking these words of the Rishi Vasishtha to be foremost in point of importance, then made gifts of a very large number of kine unto the Brahmanas, restraining his senses the while, and as the consequence of those gifts, the monarch succeeded in attaining to many regions of felicity in the next world.'"