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Chapter 1 Verse 8
Original Verse
आशाप्रतीक्षे संगतं सूनृतां चेष्टापूर्ते पुत्रपशूंश्च सर्वान् । एतद्वृङ्क्ते पुरुषस्याल्पमेधसो यस्यानश्नन् वसति ब्राह्मणो गृहे ॥ ८ ॥

āśāpratīkṣe saṃgataṃ sūnṛtāṃ ceṣṭāpūrte putapaśūṃś ca sarvān | etad vṛṅkte puruṣasyālpamedhaso yasyānaśnan vasati brāhmaṇo gṛhe || 8 ||

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Translations & Commentary

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Max Müller

English Translation

Hope and expectation, friendship and joy, sacrifices and good works, sons and cattle — all these are taken away from the foolish man in whose house a Brâhmaṇa dwells unfed.

Simple English

English Translation

All hopes, all expectations, all friendships, all good deeds, sons and cattle — all this is taken from the person of small understanding in whose house a Brahmin guest goes unfed.