Compassion, abstention from injury, carefulness, giving to others what is due to them, Shraddhas in honour of departed manes, hospitality to guests, truthfulness, subjugation of anger, contentedness with one's own married wives, purity, freedom from malice, knowledge of Self, and Renunciation,-these duties, O king are common to all the castes.
आनृशंस्यमहिंसा चाप्रमादः संविभागिता। श्राद्धकर्मातिथेयं च सत्यमक्रोध एव च॥ स्वेषु दारेषु संतोषः शौचं नित्यानसूयता। आत्मज्ञानं तितिक्षा च धर्माः साधारणा नृप॥