Bhagavatapurana 8.19.41
Bhāgavatapurāṇa 8.19.41
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8.19.41
parāg riktamapūrṇaṃ vā akṣaraṃ yat tadomiti /
yat kiñcidomiti brūyāt tena ricyeta vai pumān /
bhikṣave sarvamoṃ kurvan nālaṃ kāmena cātmane //
41. There is a Vedic text beginning with Parak va etc, the meaning thereof is, ‘by whatever a person agrees to give to an applicant he becomes poorer; by agreeing to give everything to him the donor cannot find sufficient for himself.’
Translations (2)
- The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation