tumi khete pāra daśa-viśa mānera anna
āmi tāhā kāṅhā pāba daridra brāhmaṇa

 tumi - You; khete - to eat; pāra - able; daśa-viśa - ten or twenty; mānera - of the measurement of a māna; anna - rice; āmi - I; tāhā - that; kāṅhā - where; pāba - shall get; daridra - poverty-stricken; brāhmaṇa - brāhmaṇa.


Text

Advaita Ācārya accused Nityānanda Prabhu, saying, “You can eat ten to twenty mānas of rice. I am a poor brāhmaṇa. How shall I get so much rice?

Purport

A māna is a measurement containing about forty kilos.