Devoted to the path of gifts, formerly many great persons used to make gifts of kine. Fearing to practise austere penances, they made gifts according to their power.
एताः पुरा ह्यददन्नित्यमेव शान्तात्मानो दानपथे निविष्टाः। स्ते वै दानं प्रददुश्चैव शक्त्या॥