O king, he who gives a copy of Mahabharata to one who asks for it, does give (not a copy of a book, but) the whole of the earth having a belt of seas.
य इदं भारतं राजन्वाचकाय प्रयच्छति। तेन सर्वा मही दत्ता भवेत्सागरमेखला॥