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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 64: Verses 27-40
0 God of gods, 0 Protector of cows, 0 Supreme Person, Ruler of the universe, 0 most glorious and infallible Lord, 0 undecaying One, 0 Narayana (the support of all Jivas), 0 Hrsikesa (prompter of the senses), 0 Krsna, (pray,) give me leave to go to my celestial abode. 0 Lord, wherever I may be, may my mind ever dwell in Your feet. (27-28) 0 Creator of all, 0 changeless One possessed of infinite energy (in the shape of Maya), hail to You. 0 Krsna, O Vasudeva (the support of all creatures), 0 Master of all Yogas, I bow (again and again) to You. Saying so, the king went round the Lord, touched His feet with his head, and with the permission of the Lord mounted an excellent aerial car while all men stood looking on. (On the departure of King Nrga), Lord Sri Krsna, glorious son of Devaki, the Lover of Brahmanas and an embodiment of virtue, addressed His people (as follows) with a view to instructing those born of the Ksatriya class. "The property of a Brahmana, even so little, when misappropriated, cannot be digested even by one who is as powerful as Fire, much less by a king who considers himself a ruler out of (false) conceit. I do not consider the most deadly poison to be a poison; for it has an antidote. A Brahmana's property is the real poison; for (once it is misappropriated) there is no remedy for it in the world. Poison kills him (alone) who swallows it; fire can be put out with water.
(But) the fire produced by the Arani (a piece of wood used in kindling fire by attrition) of a Brahmana's property burns a whole family with its roots (the forbears). The property of a man made use of without permission brings ruin to three generations (viz., the man who uses it as well as his parents and sons); if, however, it is wilfully taken and enjoyed by force, it will bring disaster to ten generations before and ten generations after the enjoyer. Foolish kings who, blinded by their royal fortune, covet and enjoy a Brahmana's property, which is terrible as hell, do not realize to what an abysmal depth they will have to fall. Those despotic rulers who deprive liberal-minded Brahmanas, having a large family, of their property and means of livelihood, have to suffer with their descendants the tortures of the hell called Kumbhipaka (where the sinners are fried in boiled oil) for as many years as there are particles of earth moistened with their tears while they weep. Nay, he who deprives a Brahmana of his livelihood whether given by himself or by another, lives as a worm born in the ordure for sixty thousand years. (It is My desire that) the property of a Brahmana should never find its way to My treasury; (for) men who (even) covet such property forfeit their longevity, suffer defeat at the hands of their enemies, lose their kingdom and are born as dreadful serpents (after death).
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