| The ācāryas comment on this verse as follows: “Jarāsandha might be thinking, ‘What if you request my son, from whom separation would be intolerable?’
To this possible objection Kṛṣṇa and the Pāṇḍavas reply, ‘For a tolerant person, nothing is intolerable.’
Similarly, Jarāsandha could object, ‘What if you ask me to give my body or my precious jewels and other ornaments, which are meant to be given to my sons, not to ordinary beggars?’
To this they reply, ‘For the generous, what is not to be donated in charity?’ In other words, everything is to be given.
Jarāsandha might also object that he could be giving charity to his enemies. To this his guests counter with the statement kaḥ paraḥ sama-darśinām: ‘For those with equal vision, who is a stranger?’”
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