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OF CULTURE
 
● GOVERNMENT OF
 
PYAMANA AND TRIVIKRAMA AVATARAS 206
 
कि ते
 
The Lord :
 
"There is none in this line (of yours)
who has been untruthful or niggardly,
none who had promised and gone back
on his word, and none who had not been
munificent to a Brahmin.
 
• पिता प्रहलादपुत्रस्ते तद्विद्वान्द्विजवत्सलः ।
स्वमायुर्द्विजलिङ्गेभ्यो देयेभ्योऽदात्स याचितः ॥
 
" Your father, (Virochana), that son of
Prahlada, attached to the Brahmins,
being begged by the gods in the guise of
Brahmins, gave them his life, knowing
their identity.
 
'तस्मान्त्वत्तो महीमीषणेऽहं वरदर्षमात् ।
पदानि त्रीणि दैत्येन्द्र संमितानि पदा मम ॥
 
Therefore, O king of demons, I ask of
you, the greatest of the munificent, a
little bit of land, three feet measured by
my feet.
 
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'नान्यत्ते कामये राजन् वदान्याज्जगदीश्वरात् ।
नैनः प्राप्नोति वै विद्वान यावदर्थपरिग्रहः ॥
 
" King ! I desire nothing else from you,
 
a munificent donor and the lord of the