Truth, righteousness, prowess, kindness to creatures, fair spokeness, and worship of the twice-born ones, gods and guests, these have by the pious been styled the ways to heaven.
सत्यं च धर्मं च पराक्रमं च भूतानुकम्पां प्रियवादितां च। द्विजातिदेवातिथिपूजनं च पन्थानमाहुत्रिदिवस्य सन्तः॥