Chanakya Charity Quotations

To have ability for eating when dishes are ready at hand, to be robust and virile in the company of one's religiously wedded wife, and to have a mind for making charity when one is prosperous are the fruits of no ordinary austerities.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

A woman does not become holy by offering by charity, by observing hundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the water used to wash her husbands feet.