The performance of those duties costs every little but yields great merit. Indeed, such performance yields great happiness in the other world. The merits of the gift of water for drink, are excellent. In the next world, in especial, those merits are very great.
अल्पव्ययं महार्थं च प्रेत्य चैव सुखोदयम्। पानीयस्य गुणा दिव्याः प्रेतलोके विशेषतः॥