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Srikrishna here recalls that even Srirama, during his days in the forest, had to run around in search of food. While thus searching for food, he along with his brother, Lakshmana, has to live in want.  And he concludes that it must be because of their not having sufficiently given of food earlier (anannadana). <blockquote>यन्न प्राप्यं तदप्राप्यं विद्यया पौरुषेण वा । सत्यो लोकप्रवादोऽयं नादत्तमुपतिष्ठति ॥ (Bhav. Pura. 4.169.6)</blockquote>Meaning : What we have not earned, we shall not get, neither by knowledge, nor by prowess. It is truly said that what is not given, cannot be enjoyed.

Srikrishna here recalls that even Srirama, during his days in the forest, had to run around in search of food. While thus searching for food, he along with his brother, Lakshmana, has to live in want.  And he concludes that it must be because of their not having sufficiently given of food earlier (anannadana). <blockquote>यन्न प्राप्यं तदप्राप्यं विद्यया पौरुषेण वा । सत्यो लोकप्रवादोऽयं नादत्तमुपतिष्ठति ॥ (Bhav. Pura. 4.169.6)</blockquote>Meaning : What we have not earned, we shall not get, neither by knowledge, nor by prowess. It is truly said that what is not given, cannot be enjoyed.

Recalling the Anannadana experience of Srirama, Srikrishna begins to tell the story of King Sveta, the king who lived a life of dharma and who was generous with his giving at the proper occasion, but who gave no food to any seeker and therefore had to suffer the pangs of hunger even in the heavens that he had earned by his otherwise righteous conduct. Sveta was finally relieved of his terrible fate by sage Agastya, who accepted food from his hands and thus freed him of the taint of anannadana.

Recalling the Anannadana experience of Srirama, Srikrishna begins to tell the story of [[King Sveta and Anannadana (अनन्नदानम्)|King Sveta]], the king who lived a life of dharma and who was generous with his giving at the proper occasion, but who gave no food to any seeker and therefore had to suffer the pangs of hunger even in the heavens that he had earned by his otherwise righteous conduct. Sveta was finally relieved of his terrible fate by sage Agastya, who accepted food from his hands and thus freed him of the taint of anannadana.

=== Mahabharata ===

=== Mahabharata ===