There is nothing O, delighter of the Kurus, that is equal in point of merit, either in this world or in the next to the practice of mercy to all living creatures.
न ह्यतः सदृशं किंचिदिह लोके परत्र च।॥ यत् सर्वेष्विह भूतेषु दया कौरवनन्दन।