अष्टाशीतिसहस्राणि स्नातका गृहमेधिनः ॥
त्रिंशद्दासीक एकैको यान् बिभर्ति युधिष्ठिरः ॥
दशान्यानि सहस्राणि नित्यं तत्रान्नम् उत्तमम् ॥
भुञ्जते रुक्मपात्रीभिर् युधिष्ठिरनिवेशने ॥
कदलीमृगमोकानि कृष्णश्यामारुणानि च ॥
काम्बोजः प्राहिणोत् तस्मै परार्ध्यान् अपि कम्बलान् ॥
aṣṭāśītisahasrāṇi snātakā gṛhamedhinaḥ ||
triṃśaddāsīka ekaiko yān bibharti yudhiṣṭhiraḥ ||
daśānyāni sahasrāṇi nityaṃ tatrānnam uttamam ||
bhuñjate rukmapātrībhir yudhiṣṭhiraniveśane ||
kadalīmṛgamokāni kṛṣṇaśyāmāruṇāni ca ||
kāmbojaḥ prāhiṇot tasmai parārdhyān api kambalān ||
'Eighty-eight thousand snātaka householders, each with thirty maidservants, Yudhishthira maintains; ten thousand others constantly eat there the finest food from golden dishes in Yudhishthira's abode. Hides of the kadalī antelope — black, dark, and reddish — and the most precious woolen cloaks the Kamboja sent him.'
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Duryodhana begins to tally another's wealth — and the very tally betrays his sickness. It is telling that Yudhishthira's generosity toward the brahmins, which would gladden any pious heart, is for the envious man only a fresh occasion of pain: he sees not the sages fed, but the scale of another's abundance. The verse teaches that one and the same sight feeds reverence in one heart and envy in another: the good does not change, the eye does. And whoever, seeing a neighbor feed thousands, counts not the fed but his wealth, betrays himself: what occupies him is not the good another does, but the other's superiority. Thus a list of good deeds becomes, in the envious man's mouth, a bill of indictment.