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# Skandapurana 5.277.40

Skandapurāṇa 5.277.40

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.277.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.277.40)

viṭaprāyaṃ tu taṃ dṛṣṭvā malināṃbaradhāriṇam..  
taṃ provāca vihasyoccai dehi viprā'kṣatāñjalam .. 6.278.40 ..

> Seeing him looking like a rake and wearing soiled clothes, / he laughed aloud and said to him: "O brahmin, offer the handful of unbroken grains (40)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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