Markandeyapurana 24.5

24.5

kuvalayāśva uvāca
tava prasādādbhagavan ! suvarṇādi gṛhe mama /
piturasti mamādyāpina kiñcit kāryamīdṛśam //

Kuvalayāśva spoke:
“Through thy favour, illustrious Sir! gold and other wealth are in my father’s house; I have no need of any such thing at all now. While my father rules this earth for thousands of years and thou also rulest Pātāla, my mind is not expectant in solicitation. They are both possessed of Svarga and are very rich in merit, who from their youth possess, in their father’s lifetime, a mere particle[1] of wealth amidst his krores of wealth, friends equally-educated, and a body free from sickness. My father[2] holds the wealth; have I not youth? When wealth is wanting, men’s minds become prone to petitions. When I have it in full measure, how shall my tongue make petition? Those who need not think whether they have any riches at home or not, happy are they, sheltered in the shadow of the tree of their father’s arm. But those, who even from childhood losing their father have had the care of a family, they have in my opinion, through the ruin of their taste for happiness, been tricked by the Creator. We therefore through thy favour always give willingly to supplicants the hoards of money, gems and other wealth left by our fathers. I have everything then here, since I have touched thy feet with my crest-jewel, since I have touched thy body.”