By making gifts to such Brahmanas as have lost everything in times of universal distress and as have been deprived of their wives on such occasions, and as come to givers with solicitations for alms one acquires great merit.
हृतस्वा हृतदाराश्च ये विप्रा देशसम्लवे। अर्थार्थमभिगच्छन्ति तेभ्यो दत्तं महाफलम्॥