All the mobile and iminobile creatures of the universe depend on food. Virtue and, worldly profit, in the three worlds, depend on food. Hence the wise should make gifts of food.
अन्नतः सर्वमेतद्धि यत् किंचित् स्थाणु जङ्गमम्। त्रिषु लोकेषु धर्मार्थमन्नं देयमतो वुधैः॥