The gift of assurances of harmlessness to all creatures is superior in point of merit all other gifts. He who, at the beginning, promises abstention from injury, acquires Liberation whence is the assurance of harınlessness to all creatures.
दानं हि भूताभयदक्षिणायाः सर्वाणि दानान्यधितिष्ठतीह। तीक्ष्णां तनुं यः प्रथमं जहाति सोऽऽनन्त्यमाप्नोत्यभयं प्रजाभ्यः॥