Verse 20

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You are a child; ask for more· Verses 18–20

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Ah, heir of a brahmin, your words are such as the old approve of. Yet you are a child, and your understanding is a child's, since you have no eye for your own good. One who has won me over with his words, me the one ruler of the worlds, and then asks for three paces, has no sense in him: from me he could have had an island. No man who has come to me should have to ask a second time. So take from me, boy, as much land as will keep you.