Knavish Bramhana who torments other men, if you bestow a gift on such a man, you will, both of you, go to hell.
Yes, that is what happens to both in such a case,—to the one who asks and the other who encourages him; branches rubbing against each other set the woods on fire.
If you carve a boat out of stone, you waste your money and labour; there is no place where a ship of that kind would float; it would drown its passengers.
Even if you give funds to a thief, he will plunder on the high roads.
Tuka says, It would be a piece of ostentation on the part of the giver, and would ruin both of them.
Yes, that is what happens to both in such a case,—to the one who asks and the other who encourages him; branches rubbing against each other set the woods on fire.
If you carve a boat out of stone, you waste your money and labour; there is no place where a ship of that kind would float; it would drown its passengers.
Even if you give funds to a thief, he will plunder on the high roads.
Tuka says, It would be a piece of ostentation on the part of the giver, and would ruin both of them.