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# Skandapurana 17.17.77

Skandapurāṇa 17.17.77

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [17.17.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.17.77)

.. nārada uvāca .. ..  
bhaktyā tuṣyaṃti ye viprāste viprā bhūmidevatāḥ ..  
na tu ye pūjitāḥ śaktyā punaryācaṃti te'dhamāḥ.. . .. 77 ..

> Nārada said: / "Those brahmins who are pleased with devotion, those brahmins are gods on earth; / but those who, even though worshipped according to one's capacity, beg again—they are the lowest.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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