Shloka 14
दानफलप्रकरणम् — उपानहदानं, तिलदानं, भूमिदानं, गोदानं, अन्नदानं च
Gifts and Their Stated Results: Footwear, Sesame, Land, Cows, and Food
पुनश्चासौ जनिं प्राप्पय राजवत् स्यान्न संशय: । तस्मात् प्राप्यैव पृथिवीं दद्यात् विप्राय पार्थिव:
punaścāsau janiṁ prāpya rājavat syān na saṁśayaḥ | tasmāt prāpyaiva pṛthivīṁ dadyāt viprāya pārthivaḥ ||
Dijo Bhīṣma: «Y de nuevo, al alcanzar un nuevo nacimiento, llega a ser como un rey—de ello no hay duda. Por tanto, en cuanto un gobernante obtenga posesión de la tierra (la soberanía), debe dar una parte de ella en don a un brāhmaṇa».
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhīṣma teaches that royal authority should be accompanied by immediate generosity: once a king gains sovereignty, he ought to share it through gifts—especially land-gifts—to worthy brāhmaṇas, linking righteous giving with future prosperity and elevated rebirth.
In Bhīṣma’s instruction to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Anuśāsana Parva, he continues a discourse on the fruits of dāna (gift-giving). Here he asserts that such merit leads to kingly status in a future birth and urges prompt donation upon attaining rule.