Gifts - AncientVoice

Mbh.12.36.1950	Gifts should be made unto him only that is a Srotriya
Mbh.12.59.3314	Gifts, study, and sacrifices, bring prosperity to kings.
Mbh.12.234.14514	Gifts, study of the Vedas, sacrifices, penances, modesty, guilelessness, and self-restraint, these enhance one's energy and destroy one's sins.
Mbh.12.292.18280	Gifts to a distinguished person and acceptance of the gifts made by a distinguished person both lead to equal merit.
Mbh.12.298.18603	Penances practised are never destroyed, Gifts also, made to deserving persons, are not lost.
Mbh.12.298.18660	Gifts constitute the diet upon which one can subsist.
Mbh.12.301.18910	Gifts are its pearl-banks.
Mbh.13.23.3280	Gifts of articles that have been leapt over by any one, o been licked or sucked, that are not given peacefully, that have been seen by women that are impure in consequence of their season having come, do not produce any merit.
Mbh.13.23.3282	Gifts of articles that have been proclaimed before many people or from which a portion has been eaten by a Sudra, or that have been seen or licked by a dog, form portions of Rakshasas.
Mbh.13.57.5702	Gifts of gold lead to heaven.
Mbh.13.57.5703	Gifts of pure gold lead to greater merit still.
Mbh.13.61.5897	Gifts are productive of great merit, and are highly cleansing.
Mbh.13.71.6633	Gifts of kine should be made after ascertaining the distinctive qualifications of both Brahmanas who are to receive them and the kine themselves which are to be given away.
Mbh.13.71.6668	Gifts, again, should be made unto deserving persons, when time and place are suitable.
Mbh.13.116.10441	Gifts made in all sacrifices, ablutions performed in all sacred waters, and the merit that one acquires from making all kinds of gifts mentioned in the scriptures, all these do not come up to abstention from cruelty in point of the merit that attaches to it.
Mbh.13.124.10741	SECTION CXXIV Yudhishthira said, Which is of superior efficacy, Conciliation or Gifts?
Mbh.13.125.10944	Gifts should be made to us, on the day of the new moon, of sesame seeds and water.
Mbh.13.129.11114	Gifts of water with sesame seeds are regarded by the Pitr is as productive of eternal gratification to them.
Mbh.13.138.11381	Gifts, therefore, should be known to be of five kinds.
Mbh.13.138.11398	Gifts made from such considerations are regarded as made from pity
Mbh.13.165.13693	Sarayu, Gandaki, the great river Lohita, Tamra, Aruna, Vetravati, Parnasa, Gautami, the Godavari, Vena, Krishnavena, Dwija, Drishadvati, Kaveri, Vankhu, Mandakini Prayaga, Prabhasa, the sacred Naimisha, the spot sacred to Visweswara or Mahadeva, viz, Kasi, that lake of crystal water, Kurukshetra full of many sacred waters, the foremost of oceans viz, the ocean of milk, Penances, Gifts, Jamvumarga, Hiranwati, Vitasta, the river Plakshavati, Vedasmriti, Vedavati, Malava, Aswavati, all sacred spots on Earth, Gangadwara, the sacred Rishikulya, the river Chitravaha, the Charmanwati, the sacred river Kausiki, the Yamuna, the river Bhimarathi, the great river Vahuda, Mahendravani, Tridiva Nilika, Saraswati, Nanda, the other Nanda, the large sacred lake, Gaya, Phalgutirtha Dharmarayana the sacred forest that is peopled with the deities, the sacred celestial river, the lake created by the Grandsire Brahma which is sacred and celebrated over the three worlds, and auspicious and capable of cleansing all sins, the Himavat mountain endued with excellent herbs, the Vindhya mountain variegated with diverse kinds of metals, containing many Tirthas and overgrown with medicinal herbs.
Mbh.14.18.606	Regarding this, I shall tell thee those acts by which Jiva, O best of men, while coursing through a repeated round of re-births, becomes happy, Gifts, observances of austerity, Brahmacharyya, bearing Brahman according to the ordinances laid down, self-restraint, tranquillity, compassion for all creatures, restraint of passions, abstentions from cruelty as also from appropriating what belongs to others, refraining from doing even mentally all acts that are false and injurious to living creatures on the Earth, reverently serving mother and father, honouring deities and guests, worship of preceptors, pity, purity, constant restraint of all organs, and causing of all good acts, are said to constitute the conduct of the good.
Mbh.14.59.2726	Gifts were being ceaselessly made to those that were distressed, or blind, or helpless.
Mbh.14.91.4278	Gifts made by a sinner with an impure understanding, even when they are very large, become lost.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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