By making gifts to those persons, O Yudhishthira, who having lost everything through thieves or oppressors, approach the giver one gains great merit.
तस्करेभ्यः परेभ्यो वा ये भयार्ता युधिष्ठिर। अर्थिनो भोक्तुमिच्छन्ति तेषु दत्तं महाफलम्॥