Since the wise and the ignorant, the rich and the poor, the high-born and the low-born, the honored and the dishonored, all go to the place of the dead and sleep there shorn of anxiety, with bodies divested of flesh and full only of bones and dried up tendons, whom amongst then would the survivors regard as standing superior to others and by what marks would they determine the attributes of birth and beauty.
यदा प्राज्ञाश्च मूर्खाश्च धनवन्तश्च निर्धनाः। कुलीनाश्चाकुलीनाश्च मानिनोऽथाप्यमानिनः॥ सर्वे पितृवनं प्राप्ताः स्वपन्ति विगतत्वचः। निर्मासैरस्थिभूयिष्ठैर्गात्रैः स्नायुनिबन्धनैः॥ विशेष न प्रपश्यन्ति तत्र तेषां परे जनाः। येन प्रत्यवगच्छेयुः कुलरूपविशेषणम्॥