Rules of offering religious gifts Vydsa said : - Verse 67
Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 26 · Verse 67
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Sanskrit Original
यो ऽर्चितं प्रतिगृह्णीयाद दद्यादर्चितमेव च। तावुभौ गच्छतः स्वर्गं नरकं तु विपर्यये।।
yo 'rcitaṃ pratigṛhṇīyād dadyādarcitameva ca| tāvubhau gacchataḥ svargaṃ narakaṃ tu viparyaye||
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A person who knows Dharma should not offer even water to an atheist or a heretic or to a sceptic or to a person who does not know the Vedas. 68 . If a person who is not learned accepts the gifts of sweet pies, gold, cow, horse, land or gingelly seeds, he is reduced to ashes like a log of wood.^ 69 . An excellent Brahmana shall wish to receive wealth only from high class praise-worthy Brahmanas or from all twice born persons but by no means from a Sudra.