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→प्रतिग्रहीता ॥ Receiver: Added some of the sixteen danas that are fruitless
=== प्रतिग्रहीता ॥ Receiver ===
=== प्रतिग्रहीता ॥ Receiver ===
There are sixteen kinds of payments made to donees that does not qualify as dana. A receiver should be assessed for his mental attitudes and physical conditions by the donor for a dana to be frutiful.<ref name=":0" />
There are sixteen kinds of payments made to donees that does not qualify as dana. A receiver should be assessed for his mental attitudes and physical conditions by the donor for a dana to be frutiful.<ref name=":0" />Some of these are: to an immoral Brahmin, to a fallen Brahmin, to a thief, to a liar, to an ingrate, to a sinner, to a person who sells the Vedas, money earned through injustice to the village / town priest, to one’s father and other such gurujan, to snake-charmers, to one’s servants, to one’s family, to a person who abandons his vaanprasth ashram, or sanyaas ashram and becomes a householder again.
== References ==
== References ==