Performances of sacrifices, study, gifts, penance, truth, forgiveness, subduing the senses and renunciation of desire, these are the eight Dharmas declared by the Smriti.
इज्याध्ययनदानानि तपः सत्यं क्षमा दमः। अलोभ इति मार्गोऽयंधर्मस्याष्टविधः स्मृतः॥