You know why those words were said what those words were, and how they were said in course of the sacred Mantras, O you of great intelligence. A man, by making a gift of food, really makes a gift of life itself.
यतश्च यद् यथा चैव देवसत्रे महामते। अन्ने दत्ते नरेणेह प्राणा दत्ता भवन्त्युत॥