If after committing numerous sins a person makes gifts of carth to the twiceborn class, he leaves off all those sins like a snake casting off its slough.
अपि कृत्वा नरः पापं भूमि दत्त्वा द्विजातये। समुत्सृजति तत् पापं जीर्णो त्वचमिवोरगः॥