He who makes wheat and fruit, what he has not trodden down by vice, speaks the words of Brahman; he who gives fills the forest-paths, not emptying them.

The plural ughshare furrowing (the field) provides food (for the plural ughman); a man travelling along a roadacquires (wealth for his master) by his movements; a Brāhmaṇa expounding (the Veda) is better than one notexpounding it; (so) let the man who gives become a kinsman to the man who gives not.

The ploughshare ploughing makes the food that feeds us, and with its feet cuts through the path it follows. Better the speaking than the silent Brahman: the liberal friend outyalues him who gives not.