The learned doubt the acquision of merit which all other pious acts yield. The only act about which they are dead certain, is the of earth which, indeed, is the foremost of all gifts.
अपि चेत्सुकृतं कृत्वा शङ्करन्नपि पण्डिताः। अशक्यमेकमेवैतद् भूमिदानमनुत्तमम्॥