The gift of earth is desirable. That king who makes a gift of earth to a learned Brahmana, gets from that gift a kingdom.
य एतां विदुषे दद्यात् पृथिवीं पृथिवीपतिः। पृथिव्यामेतदिष्टं स राजा राज्यमितो व्रजेत्॥