Religious rites, beneficial ceremonies, the performance of sacrifices, officiation at the sacrifices of others, gifts, the doing of other meritorious deeds, the performance according to the best of his power, of all that has been ordained in in the case of his deceased ancestors,-all these one does for benefiting his own self.
इष्टिः पुष्टिर्यजनं याजनं च दानं पुण्यानां कर्मणां च प्रयोगः। शक्त्या पित्र्यं यच्च किंचित् प्रशस्तं सर्वाण्यात्मार्थे मानवोऽयं करोति॥