Rigveda 10.117.01
Rigveda · Mandala 10, Sukta 117 · Verse 10.117.1
Vedic Classification
Sanskrit Original
न वा उ॑ दे॒वाः क्षुध॒मिद्व॒धं द॑दुरु॒ताशि॑त॒मुप॑ गच्छन्ति मृ॒त्यवः॑ । उ॒तो र॒यिः पृ॑ण॒तो नोप॑ दस्यत्यु॒तापृ॑णन्मर्डि॒तारं॒ न वि॑न्दते
na vā u devāḥ kṣudhamidvadhaṃ dadurutāśitamupa gacchanti mṛtyavaḥ uto rayiḥ pṛṇato nopa dasyatyutāpṛṇanmarḍitāraṃ na vindate
The gods do not, driven by hunger, kill and go to death. Wealth born of right conduct does not plunder; the crushed one is not found wanting.
The gods have not assigned hunger as (the cause of) death, for deaths approach the man who haseaten; the riches of one who gives do not diminish, he who gives not finds no consoler.
THE Gods have not ordained hunger to be our death: even to the well-fed man comes death in varied shape. The riches of the liberal never waste away, while he who will not give finds none to comfort him.