Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 17 · The Three Kinds of Faith

    Verse 20

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 17, Verse 20

    दातव्यमिति यद्दानं दीयतेऽनुपकारिणे।देशे काले च पात्रे च तद्दानं सात्त्विकं स्मृतम्।।17.20।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    dātavyam iti yad dānaṁ dīyate ‘nupakāriṇe deśhe kāle cha pātre cha tad dānaṁ sāttvikaṁ smṛitam

    Translation

    Gifts given with the feeling that it is one's own duty to give, to one who makes no return, at the proper place and time to the deserving person—that is said to be sattvika.
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