The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 3.246.2

3.246.2

pratyakṣadharmā bhagavānyasya tuṣṭo hi karmabhiḥ |
saphalaṃ tasya janmāhaṃ manye saddharmacāriṇaḥ || 2 ||

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."