Mahabharata 3.246.1

3.246.1

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca |
vrīhidroṇaḥ parityaktaḥ kathaṃ tena mahātmanā |
kasmai dattaśca bhagavanvidhinā kena cāttha me || 1 ||

Yudhishthira said, "Why did that high-souled one give away a drona of corn? And, O eminently pious one, to whom and in what prescribed way did he give it? Do thou tell me this. Surely, I consider the life of that virtuous person as having borne fruit with whose practices the possessor himself of the six attributes, witnessing everything, was well pleased."