It is also for this reason that gold is considered as the most purifying of all cleansing things such as earth and kine and all other kinds of riches, O king.
तस्मात् सर्वपवित्रेभ्यः पवित्रं परमं स्मृतम्। भूमेगोभ्योऽथ रत्नेभ्यस्तद् विद्धि मनुजर्षभा॥