Seeing that the growth of these attributes (viz., heroism etc.) depended on action and that wealth and poverty were transient, king Bali, in his search about the cause of this came to the conclusion that god and nothing else was the cause thereof.
एतान् गुणान् कर्मकृतानवेक्ष्य भावाभावौ वर्तमानावनित्यौ। बलिहि राजा पारमविन्दमानो नान्यत् कालात् कारणं तत्र मेने॥