Bhishma said An assurance to all creatures of love and affection and abstention from every sort of injury, acts of kindness and favour done to a person in distress, gifts, of articles made to one who solicits with thirst and agreeable to the solicitor's wishes, and whatever gifts are made without the giver's ever thinking of them as gifts made by him, form, O chief of Bharata's race, the highest and best of gifts.
भीष्म उवाच अभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यो व्यसने चाप्यनुग्रहः। यच्चाभिलषितं दद्यात् तृषितायाभिचायते॥ दत्तं मन्येत यद् दत्त्वा तद् दानं श्रेष्ठमुच्यते। दत्तं दातारमन्वेति यद् दानं भरतर्षभ॥