If a person waits respectfully on him who is good, or him who is otherwise, if he waits respectfully on a sage endued with ascetic merit or on a thief, passes under his control and gets his colour like a piece of cloth catching the dye in which it is washed.
यदि सन्तं सेवति यद्यसन्तं तपस्विनं यदि वा स्तेनमेव। वासो यथा रंगवशं प्रयाति तथा स तेषां वशमभ्युपैति॥