That man who, possessing a knowledge of the Vedas, duly sells Soma, becomes in his next life a usurer and speedily meets with destruction.
सोमं तु रजसा ध्वस्तं विक्रीणन् विधिपूर्वकम्। श्रोत्रियो वाधुषी भूत्वा न चिरं स विनश्यति॥