Yudhishthira said : O great Rishi, O exalted one, of the bestowal of gifts and asceticism which is of greater efficacy in the next world and which is more difficult to be practised.
युधिष्ठिर उवाच भगवन् दानधर्माणां तपसो वा महामुने। किंस्विद् बहुगुणं प्रेत्य किं वा दुष्करमुच्यते॥