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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.27.54
yaḥ sva-dattāḿ parair dattāḿ
hareta sura-viprayoḥ
vṛttiḿ sa jāyate viḍ-bhug
varṣāṇām ayutāyutam
SYNONYMS
yaḥ — who; sva-dattām — given previously by himself; paraiḥ — by others; dattām — given; hareta — takes away; sura-viprayoḥ — belonging to the demigods or brāhmaṇas; vṛttim — property; saḥ — he; jāyate — takes birth; viṭ-bhuk — as a stool-eating worm; varṣāṇām — for years; ayuta — ten thousand; ayutam — times ten thousand.
TRANSLATION
Anyone who steals the property of the demigods or the brāhmaṇas, whether originally given to them by himself or someone else, must live as a worm in stool for one hundred million years.
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