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# Encyclopaedia of Sanskrit subhāṣitas 247

Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha 247

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [247](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.mahasubhasitasangraha.247)

aghaṃ sa kevalaṃ bhuṅkte yaḥ pacatyātmakāraṇāt /  
yajñaśiṣṭāśanaṃ hyetat satāmannaṃ vidhīyate //

> He consumes nothing but sin who cooks for his own sake; / for the food of the virtuous is prescribed to be eating the remnants of sacrifice.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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