Shloka 30
गोप्रदान-माहात्म्ये गोलोक-प्रश्नः
Gopradāna-Māhātmya: Inquiry into Goloka
यद् वै ददाति वित्रेभ्यो ब्राह्मण: प्रतिगृह वै । उभयो: स्यात् तदक्षय्यं दातुरादातुरेव च
yad vai dadāti vitrebhyo brāhmaṇaḥ pratigṛhya vai | ubhayoḥ syāt tad akṣayyaṁ dātur ādātur eva ca ||
ಯಾವ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣನು ದಾತನಿಂದ ಧನವನ್ನು (ರತ್ನಾದಿಗಳನ್ನು) ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸಿ ಅದನ್ನೇ ಮುಂದಾಗಿ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣರಿಗೆ ಹಂಚುತ್ತಾನೋ, ಆ ದಾನದ ಪುಣ್ಯವು ದಾತನಿಗೂ ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸಿ ಹಂಚಿದವನಿಗೂ—ಇಬ್ಬರಿಗೂ ಅಕ್ಷಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Charity yields inexhaustible merit when a gift is accepted righteously and then shared onward; both the donor and the recipient who redistributes become beneficiaries of akṣayya (imperishable) punya.
In Bhishma’s instruction on dharma, he explains a rule of ethical giving: a Brahmin who receives a donation and passes it on to other Brahmins makes the merit of the original gift enduring for both giver and receiver.