O powerful one, he who gives shoes to Snataka Brahmanas as also to Brahmanas practising the rites of religion whose feet have become sore with the heat of the Sun, acquires regions coveted by the very celestials. Such a man, O Bharata, lives happily in the highest Heaven after his death.
दह्यमानाय विप्राय यः प्रयच्छत्युपानहौ। स्नातकाय महाबाहो संशिताय द्विजातये॥ सोऽपि लोकानवाप्नोति दैवतैरभिपूजितान्। गोलोके स मुदा युक्तो वसति प्रेत्य भारत॥