स्वदत्तां परदत्तां वा ब्रह्मवृत्तिं हरेच्च य: । षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि विष्ठायां जायते कृमि: ॥ ३९ ॥
sva-dattāṁ para-dattāṁ vā brahma-vṛttiṁ harec ca yaḥ ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi viṣṭhāyāṁ jāyate kṛmiḥ
- sva
- by himself
- dattām
- given
- para
- by another
- dattām
- given
- vā
- or
- brahma-vṛttim
- a brāhmaṇa’s property
- haret
- steals
- ca
- and
- yaḥ
- who
- ṣaṣṭi
- sixty
- varṣa
- of years
- sahasrāṇi
- thousands
- viṣṭhāyām
- in feces
- jāyate
- is born
- kṛmiḥ
- a worm
Whether it be his own gift or someone else’s, a person who steals a brāhmaṇa’s property will take birth as a worm in feces for sixty thousand years.