Bhojaprabandha 105_300
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Marāla: "Friend, splendid. If one's hair stands on end in oneself and in others while giving, while fighting, and while reciting poetry, only then is it called true giving, heroism, and recitation.
"Then how will you obtain the fruit of merit from this gift [of stolen goods]?"
Śakunta: "This is our ancestral duty, that wealth is acquired through theft."
Śakunta: "Earning wealth through theft is the duty handed down from our forefathers."
Marāla: "Accepting [even the risk of] decapitation, how is all that earned wealth given away?
Marāla: "Why do you give away all that wealth earned by consenting to having your head cut off?