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4.189. Gold and food destroy his longevity, land and a cow his body, a horse his eye (sight), a garment his skin,
clarified butter his energy, sesamum-grains his offspring.
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4.190. A Brahmana who neither performs austerities nor studies the Veda, yet delights in accepting gifts, sinks
with the (donor into hell), just as (he who attempts to cross over in) a boat made of stone (is submerged) in the
water.
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4.191. Hence an ignorant (man) should be afraid of accepting any presents; for by reason of a very small (gift)
even a fool sinks (into hell) as a cow into a morass.
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4.192. (A man) who knows the law should not offer even water to a Brahmana who acts like a cat, nor to a
Brahmana who acts like a heron, nor to one who is unacquainted with the Veda.
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4.193. For property, though earned in accordance with prescribed rules, which is given to these three (persons),
causes in the next world misery both to the giver and to the recipient.
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4.194. As he who (attempts to) cross water in a boat of stone sinks (to the bottom), even so an ignorant donor
and an ignorant donee sink low.
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4.195. (A man) who, ever covetous, displays the flag of virtue, (who is) a hypocrite, a deceiver of the people,
intent on doing injury, (and) a detractor (from the merits) of all men, one must know to be one who acts like a
cat.
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4.196. That Brahmana, who with downcast look, of a cruel disposition, is solely intent on attaining his own
ends, dishonest and falsely gentle, is one who acts like a heron.
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4.197. Those Brahmanas who act like herons, and those who display the characteristics of cats, fall in
consequence of that wicked mode of acting into (the hell called) Andhatamisra.
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