Anushasana Parva 84.21
Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Anushasana Parva Chapter 84 · Verse 21
Sanskrit Original
किं तु भूमेगंवां चार्थे सुवर्णं दीयतामिति। एवं वयं च धर्मज्ञ सर्वे चास्मत्पितामहाः॥ पाविता वै भविष्यन्ति पावनं हि परं हि तत्। दशपूर्वान् दशैवान्यांस्तथा संतारयन्ति ते॥ सुवर्णं ये प्रयच्छन्ति एवं मत्पितरोऽब्रुवन्। ततोऽहं विस्मितो राजन् प्रतिबुद्धो विशाम्पते॥
You have made gifts of earth and kine. Do you make gifts of gold. The gift of gold is very purifying. O you that are wellconversant with duties, know that by such acts both ourselves and our forefathers will all be purged of all our sins. Such gifts rescue both ancestors, and descendants of tenth degree of the person who makes them! These were the words that my ancestors, appearing to me in a dream, said to me. I then awoke, o king, and become filled with wonder.