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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 17]
TEXT 42
शुष्य नष्टांत्रीन् पादान् तपः शौचं दयामिति । प्रतिसंदध आश्वास्य महीं च समवर्धयत् ॥४२॥
vṛṣasya naṣṭāṁs trīn pādān tapaḥ śaucaṁ dayām iti pratisandadha āśvāsya mahīm ca samavardhayat
vṛṣasya —of the bull (the personality of religiosity);  naṣṭān —lost;  trīn —three;  pādān —legs;  tapaḥ —austerity;  śaucaṁ —cleanliness;  dayām —mercy;  iti —etc.;  pratisandadhe —reestablished;  āśvāsya —by encouraging activities;  mahīm —the earth;  ca —and;  samavardhayat —perfectly improved.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter the King reestablished the lost legs of the personality of religion [the bull], and by encouraging activities he sufficiently improved the condition of the earth.
PURPORT
By designating particular places for the personality of Kali, Mahārāja Parīkṣit practically cheated Kali. In the presence of Kali, Dharma (in the shape of a bull), and the earth (in the shape of a cow), he could actually estimate the general condition of his kingdom, and therefore he at once took proper steps to reestablish the legs of the bull, namely austerity, cleanliness and mercy. And for the general benefit of the people of the world, he saw that the gold stock might be employed for stabilization. Gold is certainly a generator of falsity, intoxication, prostitution, enmity and violence, but under the guidance of a proper king or public leader or a  brāhmaṇa  or  sannyāsī , the same gold can be properly utilized to reestablish the lost legs of the bull, the personality of religion.
Mahārāja Parīkṣit, therefore, like his grandfather Arjuna, collected all illicit gold kept for the propensities of Kali and employed it in the  saṅkīrtana-yajña , as per instruction of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. As we have suggested before, one's accumulated wealth may be divided in three parts for distribution, namely fifty percent for the service of the Lord, twenty-five percent for the family members and twenty-five percent for personal