The persons, who are charitable, secure prosperity in this world and abodes of happiness, in the next. The virtuous men, if approached and solicited by the honest and wise, give away alms to them with the best of his power, even at the denial of the comforts of his wife and dependents. Looking to their own interest and having an eye upon virtue and the ways of the world.
दानशिष्टाः सुखाँल्लोकानाप्नुवन्तीह च श्रियम्। पीडया च कलत्रस्य भृत्यानां च समाहिताः॥ अतिशक्त्या प्रयच्छन्ति सन्त: सद्भिः समागताः। लोकयात्रां च पश्यन्तो धर्ममात्महितानि च॥