Verse 44

³⁷As many grains of dust as the falling tears take hold of, the tears of brahmins who weep, whose living has been carried off, who are open-handed and have households to keep: ³⁸for that many years are kings, and the king's people, unchecked as they are, cooked in the pots of hell, when they have carried off what was given to brahmins. ³⁹And whoever takes away a brahmin's living, whether he gave it himself or another gave it, is born a worm in dung for sixty thousand years. ⁴⁰Let a brahmin's wealth never be mine. Men who are greedy for it become short-lived, they are beaten, they fall from their kingdoms, and they turn into snakes that make others shudder.

⁴¹You who are mine, never do harm to a brahmin, not even to one who has done wrong. Even if he strikes you or curses you again and again, bow to him always. ⁴²As I bow to brahmins at every hour with my mind gathered, so you also bow. Whoever does otherwise has punishment from me coming to him. ⁴³What belongs to a brahmin, once carried off, brings the taker down, even one who does not know he has taken it, as the brahmin's cow brought Nrga down. ⁴⁴Having made this heard by the people of Dvaraka, the Bhagavan Mukunda, who cleanses all the worlds, went into his own house.